March 19 was like all typical spring weekend in Midland — in some way concurrently feeling like each winter and summer season with a house restore mission or two taken on by volunteers with Christmas in Motion. This specific weekend, nonetheless, marked a noteworthy event — the 15,000th dwelling restore mission accomplished by Christmas in Motion.
Over the previous 50 years, Christmas in Motion has been repairing and bettering the properties of the aged and disabled in our neighborhood. To commemorate this achievement, Christmas in Motion board members, home captains (each present and former), native volunteers and out-of-town guests got here collectively to deal with a particular 15,000th mission.
Thirty-one (31) volunteers put in 9 new home windows, all new siding, a brand new again door, a brand new entrance storm door, painted the entire home and up to date the land scaping of a bodily challenged aged lady with restricted revenue. It was a full day of labor for the volunteers, from dawn to sundown. In that at some point, although, they took care of an entire host of dwelling renovations that the recipient not must take care of. A particular because of Builders and Householders, Framing Sq., Teen Problem and Homegrown Garden and Backyard for the assist you gave Christmas in Motion in making the day a celebratory success.
And this was only one home on at some point. Consider the legacy that 15,000 restore tasks over 50 years includes. 15,000 wanted repairs have been mounted by devoted volunteers. 15,000 occasions, our neighborhood has stepped as much as look after neighbors by donations of each money and time. 15,000 worries have been eradicated for those that didn’t know the place else to show for assist.
In 1972, when Bobby Trimble took his younger males’s Sunday college class out to restore the properties of widows, he wasn’t pondering he was beginning a charity group and all that might entail. He was making an attempt to indicate his class how you can virtually reside out their Christian religion and put their lesson into motion. However as a result of there may be at all times an important want for such a ministry, and since Midland is such a beneficiant metropolis, Mr. Trimble was in a position to develop his concept right into a full-time non-profit group. As time handed, Mr. Trimble was in a position to share his imaginative and prescient and develop the Christmas in Motion concept to cities not solely in Texas however all all through america.
Christmas in Motion doesn’t take any federal or state funding however depends solely on donations from the neighborhood. Because the ministry has grown over time, so have the donations from beneficiant corporations, church buildings, people, and foundations. Every donation has been poured again into the neighborhood to enhance our metropolis and assist folks really feel safer in their very own properties.
Fifty years have passed by since its inception. Christmas in Motion is now a fixture within the Midland neighborhood. Even after the spring volunteer marketing campaign is completed, Christmas in Motion is every day working with aged, disabled, and deprived householders to restore and exchange roofs, siding, and home windows in addition to putting in seize bars and wheelchair ramps, fixing slab leaks, and repairing and changing air conditioners and heaters. The Midland neighborhood could be sorely at a loss if Christmas in Motion weren’t right here to serve those that want it most.
Congratulations, Christmas in Motion, on 50 years of devoted service to the Midland neighborhood. Right here’s to 50 extra!