Idaho Servant Adventures seeks to help Shoshone County residents
CAROLYN BOSTICK | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 4 months, 3 weeks AGO
Genevieve Augur, 16, paints a wall at Kellogg Middle School last summer. Augur was in a group of students staying in Shoshone County as part of Idaho Servant Adventures and Lutherhaven.
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Carolyn Bostick has worked for the Coeur d’Alene Press since June 2023. She covers Shoshone County and Coeur d'Alene. Carolyn previously worked in Utica, New York at the Observer-Dispatch for almost seven years before briefly working at The Inquirer and Mirror in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Since she moved to the Pacific Northwest from upstate New York in 2021, she's performed with the Spokane Shakespeare Society for three summers. | June 21, 2024 1:00 AM
Residents needing minor home repairs in the Silver Valley are being sought for a summer service project through Lutherhaven.
Idaho Servant Adventures is preparing to send out over 600 young volunteers this summer to impact the community through acts of service such as painting homes or small home repairs.
Homeowners who could use a few helping hands to improve their home conditions are encouraged to reach out to Idaho Servant Adventures this summer. Potential projects include replacing windows, fixing fences and building wheelchair ramps.
Next week, the faith-based service group is sending out 12 service teams to different homes.
The director of the program, Clint Kunze, calls the work a way to “serve the underserved in Shoshone County through simple, significant projects all summer long.”
Based out of Shoshone Mountain Retreat, volunteer service teams of seven or eight high school youth and adults will serve at over 100 different sites from June to August.
"All of the hours served are volunteer hours, as a way for these servants to live out their faith, and love our neighbors,” Kunze said.
Home-related chores like splitting and stacking firewood, pulling weeds, painting projects (exterior and interior) and cleaning garages and homes are also potential projects the group is looking to take on in Shoshone County.
Barbara Miller of the Shoshone County Resource Center said the center sometimes partners with Idaho Servant Adventures since their missions overlap in helping underserved communities.
“These high school students with their supervisors get a plan of action to do minor repairs or painting and they do it with such respect and quality. It might seem trivial to a lot of people, but there’s a lot of need and they’re profoundly helping people in the Silver Valley,” Miller said.
Homeowners are encouraged to reach out to Clint Kunze at 208-659-8133 or clint@lutherhaven.com to assess the project needs.
