Welcome To Our Website!

This website is for the Sawdust and Sandals trips for Bethel Lutheran Church members and friends. Join us to work on rehabilitation and new construction of housing!

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Do Good and Have Fun Too!

Our Next Trips!

July 31 - August 6th - Americus, GA - We're Here Now!

Our big summer trip! This is a multi-generational trip for all people age 13 and up.

Follow our adventures at our blog as we rehab housing in the birth place of the Fuller Center for Housing and Habitat for Humanity. We are working with the Americus-Sumter County Fuller Center for Housing. We are replacing windows and painting and some home repairs.

Fundraising!

Book Sale

Thanks to all who donated and/or bought books!

Yard Sale

Thanks to all who helped! We ended up raising over $6,000 to fund this year's Sawdust and Sandals trip July 31st for housing rehab and to put towards next year's Youth Gathering trip. A special thanks to our yard sales sponsors: Freedom Property Management and Packrat of Chantilly who donated the Packrat for storing our early donations.

Pictures and Stories from Previous Trips

May 2011

A group from Bethel participated in the 1 By Youth clean up of the Point of Woods neighborhood. Our task was cleaning out and trenching common area flower beds and mulching. You can see pictures from our trip here!

August 2010

We worked with the Fuller Center in the NJ Pines to do preparation work to help turn an old farmhouse into a homeless shelter. This project is still under construction.

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We also worked on a project to help add a handicapped bathroom to a house and replace its gutters. This project was completed by the FCNJP on December 18th of 2010.

We wrote a blog about our adventures at SawdustAndSandals.blogspot.com