Volunteers at HPU Impact Weekend help rebuild fire-damaged homes

September 8, 2006

John Rutledge

Posted: 9/08/06


Kyle Kinser, a senior at Howard Payne University, measures before hanging drywall in a recently built home in Cross Plains.
Volunteers at HPU Impact Weekend help rebuild fire-damaged homes Ninety-five Howard Payne University students spent a recent Saturday in Cross Plains, where they helped homes that had been damaged by wildfires. The fires torched 7,600 acres across Central Texas on Dec. 27, 2005. The student volunteers were participating in Impact weekend, through the Baptist Student Ministries at Howard Payne, working in conjunction with the city of Cross Plains and First Baptist Church of Cross Plains. The group worked on five different homes throughout the day, doing various projects including painting, hanging drywall, clearing land and digging for a foundation.

Bethany Elmore, a freshman at HPU, paints the trim on a home in Cross Plains that was damaged by the wildfires that hit in December 2005.	Josh Rhodes, a transfer student at HPU, helps with the dry walling in a home that was recently built in Cross Plains.

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