Post by Moon Seeker on Aug 5, 2009 21:40:05 GMT -5
By DWIGHT OTWELL
dotwell@cherokeescout.com
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 8:01 PM CDT
Murphy – A group of teenagers from Michigan worked on a roof in Cherokee County in July in near 90-degree temperatures to help Cherokee Tribe senior citizens.
Eleven teens and four adults from Immanuel Community Reformed Church in Lansing, Mich., spent four days and five nights at Eagle Ranch near Copperhill, Tenn., and the Ocoee River. They worked in what Eagle Ranch spokesman David Scott called the Cherokee Widow’s program. They tore off a leaking roof from the Maltby Road home of Unita Holcomb, replaced it with a new tin roof and built four picnic tables for the Cherokee Senior Center on Airport Road.
The youths, ages 14-18, and four adults are what Scott calls an Eagle Ranch Mission Team. The four picnic tables were built to place under a new pavilion next to a new walking track next to the Cherokee Senior Center. “Our youth do a summer mission trip every year,” youth leader Jeri Baker said.
“We go to various locations for Christian service. We asked to serve in Cherokee. My kids love to work. They work and play hard. A Christian message – sometimes we do it subtly.”
Teenager Lauren Baker said of the trip, “I love doing this. Ms. Unita is interesting and thankful for what we are doing. It is fulfilling.”
Teen Angela Maas said, “I love it – giving her a new roof. She deserves it. I heard that her roof leaks.”
Maas likes seeing the mountains, saying the terrain is much different than where she lives in Michigan, which is fairly flat with some hills. She said it has been hotter in Cherokee County than in her hometown.
“I can see the stars every night,” she said.
Teenager Zach Adams thought the rafting trip down the Ocoee River was “awesome. I love the water just hitting my face.”
Rick Westmoreland, head of missions for Eagle Ranch, said Eagle Ranch caters only to church groups.
“We are having a good year,” he said. “Last week, we had about 260 people on projects. They do a lot of work with the elderly and handicapped.
“This is one of the hardest working groups we have had at Eagle Ranch.”
www.cherokeescout.com/articles/2009/08/04/news/doc4a7897c0f28da552085242.txt
dotwell@cherokeescout.com
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 8:01 PM CDT
Murphy – A group of teenagers from Michigan worked on a roof in Cherokee County in July in near 90-degree temperatures to help Cherokee Tribe senior citizens.
Eleven teens and four adults from Immanuel Community Reformed Church in Lansing, Mich., spent four days and five nights at Eagle Ranch near Copperhill, Tenn., and the Ocoee River. They worked in what Eagle Ranch spokesman David Scott called the Cherokee Widow’s program. They tore off a leaking roof from the Maltby Road home of Unita Holcomb, replaced it with a new tin roof and built four picnic tables for the Cherokee Senior Center on Airport Road.
The youths, ages 14-18, and four adults are what Scott calls an Eagle Ranch Mission Team. The four picnic tables were built to place under a new pavilion next to a new walking track next to the Cherokee Senior Center. “Our youth do a summer mission trip every year,” youth leader Jeri Baker said.
“We go to various locations for Christian service. We asked to serve in Cherokee. My kids love to work. They work and play hard. A Christian message – sometimes we do it subtly.”
Teenager Lauren Baker said of the trip, “I love doing this. Ms. Unita is interesting and thankful for what we are doing. It is fulfilling.”
Teen Angela Maas said, “I love it – giving her a new roof. She deserves it. I heard that her roof leaks.”
Maas likes seeing the mountains, saying the terrain is much different than where she lives in Michigan, which is fairly flat with some hills. She said it has been hotter in Cherokee County than in her hometown.
“I can see the stars every night,” she said.
Teenager Zach Adams thought the rafting trip down the Ocoee River was “awesome. I love the water just hitting my face.”
Rick Westmoreland, head of missions for Eagle Ranch, said Eagle Ranch caters only to church groups.
“We are having a good year,” he said. “Last week, we had about 260 people on projects. They do a lot of work with the elderly and handicapped.
“This is one of the hardest working groups we have had at Eagle Ranch.”
www.cherokeescout.com/articles/2009/08/04/news/doc4a7897c0f28da552085242.txt