• Rebuilding Together: roofing on up to four sites, including one tin roof.

Adult Habitat Blitz Build (18 and older)

• Greater Lynchburg Habitat for Humanity:  adults of all skill levels are needed for framing, roofing, siding, painting, landscaping, and general labor as we work with other Habitat volunteers to build a house in a week.

Adult Knitting/Sewing (at Eagle Eyrie)

• Eagle Eyrie Baptist Conference Center: knitting and sewing caps, blankets, and other items for nursing homes, hospitals, and other institutions.

• Big Island Baptist Church (1 team):  installing exterior foam insulation and siding on a one-story house.

• Hunting Creek Baptist Church (1 team): removing and replacing the kitchen floor in the home of a church member.

• Lynchburg Community Action Group, Inc. (1 or 2 teams):  installing siding on one or more houses.

• Miller Home of Lynchburg (1 team): building a divider wall in a basement room, hanging drywall in a laundry room, and mudding and finishing walls.

• This team will prepare music and/or skits for the first hour each day and then travel to different sites (Adult Care Center, Juvenile Detention Center, CVTC, etc.) to perform.

• Central Virginia Area Agency on Aging:  heavy cleaning, painting, and yard work at the home of an elderly person.

• Lynchburg Area Food Bank:  sorting foods and straightening shelves.  Children are allowed to help if accompanied by adults.

• Nursing Homes:  visiting a different nursing home each day to brighten up the residents, including performing special music, if possible.  NOTE:  This site will be added if there is a need.

• Prayer Walks:  traveling to sites where other teams are working and prayer walking around the home being serviced as well as through the neighborhood where it is located.

• Rebuilding Together:  helping sort and remove unwanted items from homes of elderly people (2 houses, 1 per day).

Landscape/Clean-up/Paint

• Appomattox Baptist Association:  Painting, light construction, and/or yard work.

• Network for Women in Crisis House:  painting one large bedroom, a hallway, ceiling, and fireplace.  Cleaning out the basement.  Outside work will include cleaning out gutters, washing windows, and possibly painting front and back porches.

• Jericho Baptist Missionary Chapel:  work here usually involves painting, cleaning, some landscaping, and possibly light construction.

• Lynchburg Baptist Association:  a project from Rebuilding Together will be selected for this group

• Big Island Methodist Church:  painting inside and out, planting flowers, and other landscaping.

Landscape/Clean-up/Paint
Rebuilding Together (5 teams):

• The photo/video team will travel to all MC2 sites, including campus classes, programs, and mission/service projects, to record the week in photographs and video that will be shown during the evening sessions to highlight the work being accomplished for God’s glory.

• Adult Care Center:  a day-care center for senior adults where a team prepares special programs, using music (especially hymns) and puppets to entertain and as ministry.

• Bedford City Sites (1 team):
  • Tuesday the team will work with Bedford Christian Ministries at their store. 
  • Wednesday and Friday the team will work with the Community Resource Center, sorting and organizing.  Yard work for the elderly is another possibility. 
  • Thursday the team will work cleaning and/or sorting at the Bedford Pregnancy Center.

• Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center:  work may include washing windows, boxing baby clothes, and painting.  The privacy policy of the center does not allow interaction between team members and the mothers-to-be.

• Central Virginia Training Center:  a state institution where mentally and physically handicapped individuals are housed and trained for the job market.  Music and drama are always appreciated during interaction with the clients.  In addition, landscaping is a possibility.

• Detention Center (Juvenile):  age restrictions on this site require team members to be 15 years or older.  Service time is broken up into three one-hour segments.  The youth enjoy playing games – especially ice-breakers and board-type games – and Christian interaction.

• Gleaning for the World:  working in a warehouse environment to sort and package medical and food supplies for transport to countries all over the world.

• James Crossing Apartments:  a low-income housing complex where a team will hold an outdoor Backyard Bible Club using VBS or other appropriate materials.  Using teaching materials provided by the site leader, the team will prepare each day from 8:00 until 9:15 and then lead the club from 9:30 to 11:45.

• Jubilee Center:  a team will lead sports activities, with time for a Bible story application, at this Lynchburg City community-based organization for children and teens.

• Rivermont Avenue Baptist Church Early Learning Center (2 teams):
  • One team will lead a mini-VBS for preschoolers.
  • A second team will lead a mini-VBS for children in Kindergarten through 1st grade. 
  (Leaders will provide the teaching materials for the site.)

• Salvation Army (2 teams):
  • One team will lead a VBS with children.
  • A second team will work on landscaping and a variety of projects in the complex.