Community helps out on home makeover for widowed Raleigh woman
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RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Homeowners know it can take time and money to maintain or repair a house. Sometimes after a life changing event, things left undone become too much for just one person to handle.
That's why about two dozen people came out to help a widowed woman in Raleigh with her home makeover.
The volunteers from Hope Community Church spent much of Saturday on the first phase of the makeover in Raleigh.
"My husband is here," volunteer Teresa Johnson Troup told Eyewitness News, "and our youngest son. It's also our wedding anniversary!"
She and the others worked up a sweat as they improved the Bragg Street home of the woman they know as Gwen.
She was away on her job when Eyewitness News cameras recorded the renovation activity.
Ed Majkowski of the Hope Community Church explained why they're happy to help her.
"Her husband passed away a few years ago, and her house is in very very poor condition," he said. "And she needed some tender loving care, extreme tender loving care!"
That TLC meant tossing some items, and ripping worn out cabinets off kitchen walls.
Those cabinets will be replaced by new ones, purchased by some of the volunteers because the cost exceeded the project's initial budget for materials.
Majkowski said it's the right thing to do. "We're not out here recruiting. We're here to help somebody and do the work, and good things will come from that."
Troup agrees, "It's all about coming along beside each other. Life is very short, and whatever we can do to make a difference in someone else's life and to let them know that they are loved and they are cared about, we are the hands and feet of Jesus."
