Trinity United Methodist Church partnered with Homewood Helps and Sleep in Heavenly Peace to hold it’s first-ever bed-building day where volunteers of all ages built beds from scrap wood and packed bags of food for the people in Homewood who just needed food to eat and a place to sleep.
The event was held on Saturday, Oct. 21, from 8 o’clock a.m. to noon and resulted in 61 beds being built. David Thompson, Trinity’s executive pastor, said there were close to 200 people there.
The organization behind this project was Homewood Helps.
Homewood Helps is, “A partnership between Homewood City Schools and the community,” Thompson said.
There were many people there to help including the Homewood High School varsity basketball and soccer players, Trinity members, the Rotary Club, and people from the community there to help build beds.
David Siegel, co-owner of Twin Construction, brought all of the wood donated from Five Star Lumber, a company based in Pelham.
“It’s very well organized, and they’re doing an excellent job of making sure everyone is doing something,” Siegel said.
Volunteer Oscar Price, from Homewood Community Church, came because he heard there was an opportunity to help the community.
“I didn’t know we had people in our community sleeping on the floor,” Price said
For the younger kids, Trinity had a bag-packing station where volunteers filled bags with food and supplies for the students in the community who needed it.
Trinity’s Director of Outreach Kristan Walker, ran the bag-packing program.
“A lot of those kids rely on school lunches and breakfast but they can’t eat them on the weekends,” Walker said.
It’s safe to say that Trinity’s first-ever bed-building day will not be its last with all of the beds being completed 40 minutes ahead of schedule and 61 people having new beds to sleep in and food to eat.
