Project: R.A.K.E.

Ground Zero Ministries

Community Relations Office

Courtesy Photos are shown below


July 6-8 & 11-15, 2007

Number of Jr. High Teenagers: 53
Number of Crews: 14

Number of Sr. High Teenagers: 56
Number of Crews: 12

Number of Homeowners: Over 20
Number of Community Service Hours Provided: approx. 6000
Total hours of community service provided to families in Southern Chester county by Project: RAKE teens: over 43,500
At the completion of this week, RAKE will have assisted 171 individual families since October 2002



Caring Corporate Sponsors

(updated 7-10-2007 @ 2:33 PM)
Learn how your company can help us create opportunities for teenagers to reach out to their community through free home repairs by visiting http://www.projectrake.com/sponsors/

EVENT PARTNERS
-- Newark Wholesale
-- Oxford Feed & Lumber
-- Delaware County Supply
-- Coastal Lumber
-- IKO Roofing Products
-- SECCRA
-- Allied Waste
-- General Rental & Sales Center
-- Tri-Supply and Equipment
-- Jennersville YMCA

FOOD DONATIONS CAME FROM...
-- Bill's Park Deli
-- Cisco Foods
-- Herr Foods INC
-- Tastecake
-- WAWA

OTHER MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS
-- Lowe's Brandywine
-- Lowe's Downington
-- Home Depot Parkesberg
-- Kozik's Home Medical Equipment
-- William Young Lumber Company
-- Todd's Landscape Design
-- Casbah Hair Studio
-- Ferguson Enterprises INC
-- Gates Distributing T-Shirt Company
-- MAB Paints

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Questions or problems, please call Drew at 610-896-7332. Thanks.
Jr. High Group Photo for July 5-8
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Sr. High Group Photo for July 10-15
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Right Click and Save Target As Domenic Martino using a jack hammer to break through a cement walk way in order to build a ramp.
Right Click and Save Target As Teddy Tompkins and Ariel Pfeil, both of White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church in Newark, DE, work on building a box for a ramp.
Right Click and Save Target As Nick Cirino (center), shows Wade Pry and Eliza Brooks where to cut the lumber.
Right Click and Save Target As Amber Blackburn and Micaela Cochran work on digging some holes to put a new set of steps in for a family.
Right Click and Save Target As Bob Cochran (center) helps Justin Rita and Tom Lefebure both of Yardley United Methodist Church, Yardley, PA, to cut some lumber for a ramp.
Right Click and Save Target As (front) Tom Lefebure, Justin Rita, (middle) Jon Carroll, Domenic Martino, (back) Pam McCreery, Josh Mericle, Bob Cochran
Right Click and Save Target As (front) Kristin Schrum, Rachel Burton, Shannon Carroll, (back) Alex Brannan, Christina Bodnar, Tracey Cope, Chris Lefebure
Right Click and Save Target As Scott Lucas and Eliza Brooks hold a box to measure the height for a ramp landing.
Right Click and Save Target As Scotty Kincaid of White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church, Newark, DE and Charlie Hall measure some lumber for a deck replacement.
Right Click and Save Target As Teddy Tompkins, Wade Pry and Robbie Dinsmore use an auger donated by General Rental of Avondale, PA to dig holes for a ramp.
Right Click and Save Target As Drew Cope, site coordinator for Project: R.A.K.E. helps Nikki Brevoort of White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church, Newark, DE to cut some plywood for a roof using a battery powered circular saw.
Right Click and Save Target As Krista Varnes of White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church, Newark, DE works to remove some old shingles from a roof they replaced.
Right Click and Save Target As Eliza Brooks of White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church, Newark, DE and Scott Lucas work on building a box for a ramp.
Right Click and Save Target As Shane McFoy screws some boards in for a deck.
Right Click and Save Target As Scott Mason check to make sure the deck box is level before they put deck boards on it.
Right Click and Save Target As Austin Walker works on screwing some deck boards in.
Right Click and Save Target As Allyson Pfeil of White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church, Newark, DE works on stripping old shingles off of a roof.
Right Click and Save Target As Pam McCreery, Justin Rita and Tom Lefebure, all of Yardley United Methodist Church, Yardley, PA work on screwing together some boxes for a ramp.
Right Click and Save Target As Domenic Martino and Jon Carroll screw together an angled box for a ramp as Bob Cochran (right) helps.
Right Click and Save Target As Serena MacCombie and Claire Lucas work on installing a window new air conditioner.