First Wall

"It doesn't matter if we're hot, we're working for God," that's what one of the 30 or so volunteers said today at the mission during an all day building blitz to get the walls up at the new Rock Island house.

Led by Ed Hilliard and John Davidson, their volunteer crew of attorneys, optometrists, insurance agents, college students, mortgage brokers, ministers, executives and businessmen, spent an incredibly hot and long 15+ hours on Saturday, July 23, to raise the walls for the teen center.

They will be back at it again on Sunday with the goal of putting on the decking before the weekend is over.

Thanks so much to all of the volunteers including Pam Hilliard and her crew, who spent all day (and evening) making sure the team was hydrated with plenty of water and Gatorade, had snacks and meals, and got out of the heat to give their bodies a rest.

We were very excited to have KWTV News 9, and KOCO Channel 5 stop by during the day to cover the Rock Island building blitz as one of their top news stories of the day.