SERVICE MISSION ~ JASPER, GA
What a super way to spend Valentine’s week! This team showed a lot of love to our partner camp in Jasper, Georgia. They installed new wood panelling on the walls of “Eagle Branch” at SharpTop Cove.
Project leaders helped to ensure that the team understood the scope of the work and also coached them during the week.
You can always learn a new skill on a Journey!
On our National Journey, your accommodations will always be immaculate and comfortable!
Led2Serve was created to equip, inspire and mobilize people to serve others in their local communities, throughout the United States, and in several regions of Costa Rica. It was created for any person, regardless of age, gender, faith, skill level, identity, or belief that wants to join others in a service related experience and serve in a variety of meaningful ways. Led2Serve was created after their founder realized that not everyone feels welcome to go and serve others across the country or the world.
Their mission is to provide life-changing service experiences for individuals, couples, families or groups through one of three kinds of Journeys. The Service Learning Journey is designed for those who desire an educational experience linked with service. The Service Mission, is for those with in a faith foundation who want to serve in community together. And the third is their Service Adventures. This last journey combines service to others with more adventurous activities such as zip-lining, snorkeling, hiking or white-water rafting. Below is our interview with Vanessa Puleo, the Founder and Executive Director at Led2Serve:
Q: You’ve recently announced two new Service Journeys, tell us more?
A: This past spring we launched a new Washington DC Service Journey where we travel to our nation’s capital with school groups (Service Learning Journeys) or youth groups (our Service Mission Journey) who want to combine learning about our Country’s history with meaningful service projects. We engage in food packing events two of the days with a local partner that feeds over 700 of the area’s families in need each year, and explore the city and sights another 3-4 days. It’s an awesome experience!
Our other most recent Journey announced is our “Bird and Serve” Journey which is for avid bird watchers! We travel into our partner locations in beautiful Costa Rica to explore and enjoy a wide array of stunning birds and nature as a whole. Typical serve projects during this type of Journey may be spending time at a local school teaching English, engaging the local kids in sports programs, participating in a community renovation project, and ongoing reforestation efforts. This Journey is for the person that loves to adventure, enjoys birding and making a difference!
Q: What can we expect from led2serve in the future? What are your plans?
A: We are currently expanding our team of Journey Leaders, and developing Journey Connectors across the USA. This means that more individuals who may want to lead a journey, or help others connect to Journeys can be a part of this growing team. Our goal is to add 12 individuals to the team be-fore the end of the year that are motivated to engage in something meaningful and life changing for themselves and others.
Additionally, in 2018 we are opening a new region in the stunning Talamanca Mountain Range of Costa Rica. This Journey takes us into a remote mountainside village where the local people welcome us to learn about the history of their area and its origin as coffee country. We will serve together in a variety of projects to assist their community in it’s further development. To balance the week we will take part in a variety of fun excursions such as a visit to the nearby coast for a day at the beach, zip-lining and hiking to the stunning waterfalls.
Q: What is the motto that guides led2serve’s decisions?
A: We have several guiding principles and mottos at Led2Serve! One motto is to Equip, Inspire and Mobilize others to do good stuff. We combine traveling with purpose, and having meaningful serving experiences. Another motto has always been “serving without boundaries”. This means everyone can join a journey, and anyone can be served. We believe that wherever you travel, there is a way to engage in meaningful projects and dig a little deep-er into the community relationships as you play, visit, and explore.
Q: What’s the best thing about led2serve that people might not know about?
A: One of the best things about Led2Serve is that anyone and everyone can join a journey. We customize the serving projects and tailor make them to each person regardless of how old or young they may be, what their interests are, whether or not they have a faith foundation, are single, married, etc. Anyone can join a Journey and experience what being Led2Serve is all about!
Below is SuperBCrew.com’s interview with Vanessa Puleo, the Founder and Executive Director at Led2Serve
IT WENT THUNK! THEN IT WENT CLUNK!
If you own a tool box and know how to use the tools inside of it, chances are you have had a friend or relative call you up and ask you to come over and fix something and upon arrival you realize they have already tried – and failed to complete the repair. This was the case for me a few weeks ago when my mom called and invited me over for dinner. For those of you not familiar, my mother is the queen of getting things done by other people; she can even make you happy that you “volunteered” to do whatever it was she wanted done.
I arrived promptly 15 minutes late for dinner and was surprised to find that mom had invited more guests to the table. As I sat down, one of the guests was explaining to the rest of the table that they would have to go out tomorrow and buy a new dryer because something went terribly wrong with theirs early that day. In an attempt to be polite, I inquired as to the fate of their dryer and was told that in an attempt to “get at” some built up lint in the back of the dryer (you could see it sticking out of those holes) they had decided to remove 3 screws located on the inside of the dryer and on the back of the rotating drum. After the third screw was pulled out the drum “fell” and made a solid “thunk” noise when it came to rest. Realizing something had gone wrong but not knowing exactly what they decided to remove three more screws from the inside of the dryer and on the back of the rotating drum. Once again, after the removal of the third screw the drum fell again only this time it made a much louder “clunk” noise before coming to rest.
“That’s terrible” would be the most common response given by most people to a story such as this; I am not most people. I offered to stop by the next day and have a look at the dryer that made the mysterious noises. I think I saw my mom smile!
The first three screws connected the drum to a reinforced plate located behind the drum. The second three screws connected this plate to a stabilizer bushing. According to the YouTube video (I’m guessing someone else must have made this mistake) that I watched, getting behind the drum to repair the problem would be a snap!
We were able to vacuum up a lot of lint that was discovered under and around the back of the drum and would not otherwise been able to get to. So, I suppose we did solve a small fire hazard.
The moral of this story is simple, if you don’t plan on looking at the owner’s manual (assuming you know where it is) at least take a moment to run a Google search on whatever it is you are planning to take apart so you can see what mistakes have already been made and avoid them (what fun is it to make someone else’s mistake)?
Although Sunset Builders & Maintenance does not actually repair washers and dryers, we are here to serve most all home maintenance and repair needs and would be happy to offer advice or referrals with regard to any project outside of our scope of services.
Contact Sunset Builders & Maintenance today for a consultation on your next project.
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