This week more than 300 junior high and high school students, along with their adult leaders, are repairing, painting or roofing 35 homes in the communities of Neptune Township and Freehold, New Jersey, as part of a World Changers project taking place there.With horns blaring, a parade of vehicles left the Neptune Hill High School parking lot at 7 a.m. After a commissioning prayer led by World Changers speaker Keith Pipes, crews were sent off to worksites scattered throughout Monmouth County.
On Neptune's 8th Avenue, the Knot Heads and the Lumber Rumblers cleared away the tall grass and overgrown shrubs that hid a beautiful century-old home. Joan MacKenzie's family has lived in the faded-blue victorian since 1944. No longer able to make the much-needed repairs to her home, World Changers stepped in and provided free labor.
MacKenzie was excited to receive help from such an unlikely bunch. The two crews are comprised of junior and senior high school students from across the country and across the Atlantic—two students working on the house are from Ireland.
"This is a good group of young people," said MacKenzie. "I'm glad to have them working on my home."
World Changers seeks to provide a dynamic, weeklong missions experience for Christian youth and adults with opportunities to meet the physical and spiritual needs of others.
They are here in New Jersey not only to work on people’s houses, but to change people’s lives with the love of Jesus Christ.
