Morning tea on Main Street

Community Painting

We had the wonderful privilege last Friday of painting the outside of "the Allan Jackson Room" in Croydon. It is situated in the Main street where many of the guys we have developed relationship with over the past 5 years now, hangout. The front of this room was looking really shabby and the council and Croydon Safety Group wanted in cleaned up, so we put our hand up and took on the job. It was so amazing to see about 20 of our community turn up to either paint or come and have some coffee and morning tea as a community. Robyn (team leader from the Shire), was amazed at the group that turned up and said she really loved what was going on amongst us.

It is so special to be apart of a wider team, (Shire, Police, Traders, Businesses, and our little awesome community, not only helping clean up Croydon but seeing it being transformed, one by one

The Guy's helping clear a fallen Tree

Here are some pictures of some of the boys helping clear up a large fallen tree at a women's refuge close to home. It was such a great morning and then to top it off, the girls at the refuge fed us a feast for lunch. A great team effort by all.......

Things are happening in Croydon!

Today Geoff, Ian and lots of guys 'got into it' at the community room in Croydon... adjusting the walls and doorways and putting in the kitchen.  There's still lots to do, but this is a great start!

Josh and Geoff, cutting strutts for a new wall; and on the right is Gunnar cooking the sausages!

Stay tuned for more action at the room in Croydon! :)

Emma.

Girls house working bee

Some of the elishacare gang after helping out with some gardening at the girls house.

If you are living in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and interested in joining us as we go out and help people with needs in our community, give us an email and come and join us, we have lots of fun and would love to share this joy with you.

Geoff

First post, working bee.

Hi its brad! Thanks for the invite to add to the blog Emma. Just wanted to share a picture from the recent girls house working bee. Thanks to everyone who was there, including ray who took the picture, and to Esta for an amazing morning tea. Looking forward to the next time we get to spend time together and make a place look good!

Brad

Working Bee, Wednesday September 22nd, Emerald

 Men at work...

At Emerald, the guys (and me!) had a great time weeding, mulching, spreading crushed rock, and burning off cuttings and weeds (James likes fire!).  It was a touching gift for the single Dad in whose garden we worked.  It always amazes me how simple things like this make people feel loved.

Emma.

Some of the Boys

We recently picked up a job, where the guys had to move and spread 40 metres of mulch, if you're not sure how much that is try about 40 trailer loads. It was truly amazing to see these guys working together, as well as plenty of mucking around and sledging each other to get this job done.

Thanks John and Lou-Anne for the opportunity to do your job but even more to have the opportunity to get to know you both. Your hospitality is still being talked about.
Well done guys for an amazing effort.

Geoff

The Boys in the Bush

Recently a bunch of the boys went bush to cut some fire wood for the guy's house wood fire. Their heater had recently broken down so it was time to get the wood fire going and a good excuse to go bush.

A couple of really good chainsaws, a few splitters and some really good men to use them and we were into it. But as you will see in the photos, more time was spent sitting around a nice fire drinking coffee and havin a chat, it seems like we do that often........


It was another great day, thanks guy's

Geoff

Working Bee, Switchback Road, 29th April

As you can see, we only work to have an excuse for fellowship.  Amazingly we still get heaps done!  Here we transformed front and back of a house which is soon to be put on the market.

Ulf

Working Bee, Benwerren, 22-09-09

On Thursday, 22nd September 2009, a group of seven guys and one girl gathered on a creek bank to pull down dead branches and burn them..... not our usual type of working bee, but all who went had loads of fun!

It was a great opportunity to lend a hand at Benwerren, a women's refuge in the Yarra Valley, who needed to get their property ready for the upcoming fire season.

Emma.