 The Rev. Dr. Mel White, Soulforce co-founder, and Kevin Hinton, the proud owner-to-be. |  Putting up the siding was gratifying work. |
 |  Signing an interior 4 x 4. It won’t show — but we’ll know it’s there! |
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 It was amazing that by lunch on the first day, what only hours earlier had been a slab was beginning to resemble a house. We had WALLS! |  |
 The heaviest, hardest work was raising the trusses for the second story roof. |  |
 |  About 45 Soulforce volunteers participated during the week. About half had been among the Soulforce delegates who met with the Rev. Jerry Falwell the previous October. |
 |  Fifteen Lynchburg churches volunteered to assist with the Soulforce-Habitat effort. One of the ways they helped was by bringing boxed lunches and sodas to the worksite every day around noon. |
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 Soulforce volunteers assembled on October 3 at 8 a.m., they were faced with only the foundation upon which the house was to be built. But the lumber and tools were already assembled for them and — with the help of capable Habitat staff — the work began. |