Community Service | Q1 2025

One of our projects included volunteering at a breast cancer fundraiser for a dear friend. She is now cancer free!

Vessel started off the year with a bang! The end of 2025 will mark seven years that we have been serving our local communities. In addition, this is the first quarter where we have done the most service projects of ANY quarter. Ten projects were accomplished in just three months. I want to thank our wonderful volunteers for their hard work. We are genuinely blown away by the faithful effort of these young adults.

Since there were so many projects, I will list them all below and highlight a few:

In summary, we completed a bathroom remodel, hanging gutters and downspouts, putting on a benefit for a cancer victim, removing an old roof, hauling off trash, building a wheelchair ramp, removing couches for the dump, cutting up a falling tree, moving furniture from an apartment to a house, and sealing another wheelchair ramp.

Now to highlight a few of these:

We finished the final phase of Tammy's basement remodel so they could finally have access to it, and the bathroom was the final part. This project took over a week because the size of the room would allow only a single worker at a time.

Next, we volunteered at a cancer benefit for a young woman who has meant a lot to us over the years. She has a husband and three children, and both her and her brother have been apart of Vessel. She has always been a wonderful light to everyone around her. When we heard she had breast cancer, we mobilized around her brother and worked with the Cross Church to serve at a cake auction. The results were outstanding, and she received more donations than expected, which greatly helped with medical costs. As of today, she is free from stage three breast cancer. She went to a doctor's appointment one morning, and they said that the cancer was completely gone. 🙏🙏🙏 God is so very good, my friends!

For another project, we mobilized around an elderly woman whose veteran husband had passed away. With the help of volunteers from Hiawassee, GA, we got her set up in a little home of her own and out of the apartment she was living in. All in all, it was beautiful to see the joy and happiness that our service brought to a wonderful woman in need.

I want to end my first quarter report by thanking our donors and those that have been praying for us. Your support has not been overlooked. Without the help from those outside of Vessel, we could never manage to do 20+ projects a year. I pray that reading this spurs you on to greater faithfulness. Blessings!

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