There are some interesting numbers to run as it applies to Community Makeover. After several churches serve together in Douglas County, GA this weekend, here is where we will be.
70 schools in Paulding, Cobb, Douglas, Fulton, and Polk were served as part of our collective efforts. Close to 1,400 kids received school supplies. Many schools were supplied with school supplies, food, and clothing to be given to kids who show up in a couple weeks that still have needs.
We did approximately 700 projects. A large number of which could have been designated as having several different projects going on in the same place. For simplicity in communication we called them one project.
We have had approximately 7,000 volunteers serve.
Our website’s numbers in visitors, hits, and pageviews are off the chart! More than 105,000 pageviews!
Here are some other numbers we haven’t talked about anywhere yet. The following numbers combine our efforts from 2009 and 2010.
Through Community Makeover (after this weekend) and Flood Relief, Engage has spent between $200,000-$225,000 in the local community. That does not count what each church has done since they own the financing of their own projects
The dollar value of a volunteer in the State of GA is $19.75. In the last couple summers if 12,000 volunteers spent an average of just 3 hours serving on Community Makeover weekend that’s 36,000. 36,000 x’s 19.75 is $711,000
If you add volunteer hours to financial investment we are approaching 1 million dollars in help we have provided to the Metro Atlanta Community at a time when our community really needed it.
The most important stat, so far we have heard of 30 folks who put their faith and trust in Christ in 2010 alone. We believe this weekend is a catalyst event. In other words, most of the spiritual fruit comes later on as members of the community connect back to a local church.
The hottest weekend of 2010 could not stop the people of God from doing an incredible job loving their neighbor, and serving their community.
Everyone Belongs,
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