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Extreme home makeover: Cornerstone Edition
Extreme home makeover: Cornerstone Edition
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IN Port Coquitlam, a family returned from a holiday on
October 5 to witness a shocking spectacle. A crowd of more than 100 people
milled around outside their Fraser Avenue home – which had been
utterly destroyed.
Well, not quite. Thanks to the Cornerstone Home
Team, which hails from Cornerstone Seventh Day Adventist Church, Steve and
Kathy Smoroden and their three children are now living in a radically
renovated home. The event was so striking that it warranted a three-page
full-colour feature in Tri-City News. The centre of attention was 12 year old Nicholas.
Tri-City News recounted
that the Smoroden’s son “has spina bifida, and depends on a
wheelchair; but the home’s thick carpeting and narrow hallway [made]
it impossible to wheel around.” Nicholas often had to be carried up
stairs and through doorways. The new home has much easier access, a lift
and a specially designed bathroom.
Some 150 volunteers worked for nine days, and more than
100 businesses donated materials and labour. Why? The answer was simple for
some:
“I’m here because God asked us to be
here,” volunteer carpenter Greg Kotlowski told Tri-City News.
For more info: cornerstonehometeam.org
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