Volunteers with Williamsport’s First Church offer ‘a helping hand’
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- KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette Volunteers clear overgrown brush from one of the traffic circles on Via Bella on Thursday. The work was part of TRANSFORM, through FIrst Church on Market Street, Williamsport.
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- KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette Dominik Roberts. left, and Jonah Edson, right, clear overgrown brush from one of the traffic circles on Via Bella on Thursday. The pair came from Altoona to take part in TRANSFORM, through FIrst Church on Market Street.
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- KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette Volunteers . Jonah Edson, left, Dominik Roberts, center, and Ken Durrwachter, right,clear overgrown brush with a group of volunteers, from one of the traffic circles on Via Bella on Thursday. The work was part of TRANSFORM, through FIrst Church on Market Street, Williamsport.
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- KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette Nic Harclerode, the youth pastor from 2nd Avenue Global Methodist Church in Altoona clears brush from one of the traffic circles on Via Bella on Thursday. The work was part of TRANSFORM, through FIrst Church on Market Street, Williamsport.
KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette Volunteers clear overgrown brush from one of the traffic circles on Via Bella on Thursday. The work was part of TRANSFORM, through FIrst Church on Market Street, Williamsport.
About 150 people have given their time at 48 sites in our area, cleaning, painting, repairing, places in need as part of TRANSFORM this week.
The mission through First Church on Market Street has been happening every summer for about 15 years.
“Gods servants” as they are called work with applications they receive in the spring from various non-profits and homeowners.
The program this year has seen volunteers from as far as Altoona and Harrisburg. They vary in age from 6-years-old and up with their families as well as 50 youth from youth groups across the region.
“There is a way for everyone to contribute,” said Ben Conrad, the church’s director of connections.
KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette Dominik Roberts. left, and Jonah Edson, right, clear overgrown brush from one of the traffic circles on Via Bella on Thursday. The pair came from Altoona to take part in TRANSFORM, through FIrst Church on Market Street.
This week has seen the sidewalk at the James V. Brown Library transformed into an interactive play area with chalk, the Sojourner Truth Ministries painted, weeded and repaired, the American Rescue Workers administrative floor hallway painted and the traffic circles on Via Bella landscaped to name a few.
“Everyone needs a helping hand once in a while,” added Conrad.
KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette Volunteers . Jonah Edson, left, Dominik Roberts, center, and Ken Durrwachter, right,clear overgrown brush with a group of volunteers, from one of the traffic circles on Via Bella on Thursday. The work was part of TRANSFORM, through FIrst Church on Market Street, Williamsport.
KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette Nic Harclerode, the youth pastor from 2nd Avenue Global Methodist Church in Altoona clears brush from one of the traffic circles on Via Bella on Thursday. The work was part of TRANSFORM, through FIrst Church on Market Street, Williamsport.