For 5 nights in a row over this past week, 250 different River Pointe volunteers showed up and loved on North Richmond!  It was so awesome to see families serving together, our middle and high school students…it really felt like to the whole church was represented out there this week!  We wrapped it all up with some great BBQ prepared by a family in the neighborhood and some great music!

Well a lot of great things happened!  New friendships were formed, and many lives were touched in profound ways.

About half of our volunteers ran an amazing kids camp each night.  We had 96 different children join us for fun and games, crafts, singing and bible stories.  One big highlight from kids camp was having 2 young girls made the personal decisions to follow Christ with their lives as well as 4 adults!

The other half of our volunteers worked on 7 different Home repair projects – I want to give a special thank you to our partner the Fort Bend CORPS for helping make this happen, we did everything from painting, to plumbing repair, a kitchen remodel, new roofs, tree removal, new siding and really just making new friends with the home owners who worked so diligently alongside us.

One of the highlights from the construction projects was receiving this email that reads,  “Tears come to my eyes every time I see dad’s house transformed to such beauty. I am blown away by all the hard work and sweat of all the volunteers- they give with such love – and their kids also- I don’t know what we did to deserve such love and gifts from River Pointe- but all I do is cry– I can’t explain what I feel inside! The volunteers are so amazing, everybody greets you as if they have known you for years- their love is just overflowing and I pray to God that their sweat and precious love of giving unconditionally will be rewarded in his name. I know these few words will never take the place or come close to what you have done for my dad and Roy. God bless you and may God reward River Pointe triple the gifts they have given us. Thank you so much, Lucinda”

I want to give a special shout-out to Becky Watts our North Richmond Director for making all this happen.  Her dedication is inspiring! This really has been an amazing on week in North Richmond and a huge foundation of trust has been laid that we will continue to build on throughout the year!