Working on a building.

One of the landmarks around Feds Creek, at least in my mind, was the old two-story block church building that stood for at least 50 years, about ¼ mile past the Feds Creek bridge on 1499E, on the right.

The building was fairly large, but consisted mainly of two large rooms on each floor. The first floor, which had four small rooms on each end of the building for Bible Study, was the home of the Feds Creek Church of Christ, while the second floor, vacant for many years, housed a fraternal organization briefly in the ‘50’s, if I am not mistaken. One thing I know for sure is, it did have a flag up there for a while with 48 stars.

Disparate factors, such as time and weather, all combined to weaken this structure, and eventually the congregation that met there deemed the building to be unsafe for further use. Buddy Hall, one the congregation’s elders, contracted a friend from the mining industry who had an excavator, and early one morning several years back, the excavator brought the building down, with a resounding crash.

To replace this structure, the members arranged to buy a doublewide building from another church that no longer needed it for that purpose, and after worshiping in exile for a spell, the new building was brought in and set up, and once some improvements were made-all done by the members of the church, by the way-the building was adopted as its new home.

But for those who have seen the congregation’s new home, it is all too painfully evident that not all the improvements have yet been made. Yes, the foundation is in place, but those little metal tabs which are meant to hold brick in place and shine so brightly in the sun, testify to the fact that these bricks have not yet been laid.

Well, that is about to change. As of last week, several thousand bricks were brought in, along with all the various accoutrements that are needed to successfully lay brick, and this week, members of this small congregation, will once again answer the call, and begin what will, no doubt, be a very laborious task, of bricking the new building before the summer is over.

This is, as anyone who has ever laid bricks knows, a very labor-intensive effort, and the fact is, those members who are attempting it, to put it politely, could really use some help. The easiest way would be to hire an experienced crew to do everything, but since the congregation is small, and since its resources are limited, this is sort of, well, out of the question.

Once upon a time, if a fellow’s house burned down, his neighbor’s would have a house raising, wherein everyone would pitch in, and a new structure would be in place in short order. No, it’s true that that hasn’t been done for a while, but for good reason; those houses were log cabins, and no one lives in log cabins anymore, do they?

Here, though, if anyone is willing to lend a hand, I wouldn’t think the church members would turn you down.

What’s in it for you? More than you may think. The Bible does say: “Cast your bread upon the waters…” .