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    f a THE TRUTH WELL TOLD By Kathy Helms ine Bureau ‘navajot @ galupindependent com ODAWAY-GAP, Ariz. —It took three days forthe ews to sink in DP 1'm getting a house!” Bessie Wilson said, jumping up and dovin excitedly, waving a spatula in her hand as she fried hamburgers in a makeshift kitchen next to the structure ‘where volunteers from Operation 29:11. were busy roughing ‘out the interior of her new home. andant Weekend ‘September 27-28, 2014 ‘Number 252 Volume 127 Cayla Nimmotindependent Above, Kee Wilson hands Troy Kearns a pile of nails during the construction of Bessie Wilson's house near Bodaway-Gap in the Ben- nett Fréeze Sept. 18, Top, Bessie Wilson laughs with the volunteer construction workers building her house in the Bennett Freeze. After more than 10 years, Bessie Wilson finally gets a home “The sound of hammers hing nails and saws ripping boards hung heavy inthe at “Wilson's home near the Grand Canyon bumed about three years ago Sines then, she hasbeen living ina di-loor Hogan on her sister's ian. just moved in ere because we had no place els 0% she sai ast Apri ‘Wilson had applied to Navajo Housing Authority fora Thome forthe las 10 years and had received a denial eter ‘See New home, Page 5 Jeremiah 29:11 ~ “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and. not to harm you, plans Yo give you hope and a future. ior erties. Cont ee cach time, she said. ‘Alavina Dougi and her mother gave permission ‘for Wilson fo build a home atthe present location ‘because she didn't have a homesite lease in the area where her family lives. “She's a sweet lle lady who needed a home, and I'm glad to help her out," Dougi sai. Ona mission ‘Randy Williams of Operation 29:11 — taken from Jeremiah 29:11 — said the Southem Califor- nia organization had been doing relief work since _money soe could ret truck and drive the 1,700 b 2007. “Our motto i, ‘Restoring Hope, Changing Lives,” he said. "But relief work doesn’t change lives. I's a momeniary blip where you give some- ‘body something to eat or something to drink or a blanket or some clothing, but it doesn't change theirlives.” Four years ago Williams met Marsha Monester- ‘sky, program director for Forgotten People Inc, “and a group of Navajos in Black Falls, including the lat John Knight, who told them about the Ben- nett Freeze and the Forgotten People organization. “John stood up and said, “Randy, we'd like you to come out and teach us how to do things, and then stay with us"In other words build an ongo- ing relationship with us,” Williams sai, “I never a” "That was the catalyst Williams needed to do things differently. i “Two years ago, Wiliams started falking to his advisers, including his pastor, Jeremy Braicher, ‘who ended upbringing his entre family to visit the “Afr the trip and through ing, they set aside $3,000 to build a house,” Wiliams said. That was the seed money for what tuned out to bbe Wilson's new home. This past January [was talking with Marsha, and she sid, ‘Randy, we have the lady that needs the house, We pased 8 resolution and se isthe ‘person most in need for Forgotten People Incorpo- fated. She's number one on the list.”” ‘Wiliams called Harold ‘Bo’ Bohannon in Chat- ‘Tennesse, and said, “Bo, we've gota house o build” Bohannon and his brother ferry ‘visited Navajo in March, reviewed the site for the ‘Wilson home, “and that was the stat of.” Williams said. Work in progress Although they had planned to start building in te spring, the date had 1 be put off so that Bohar- ‘non could have hip replacement surgery in Apri ‘They did't start building until around the second _week of September, and though sill recovering from surgery, Bobarnnon was hard at work. “This is what God's doing.” Wiliams said. “Go provided what we needed — the people ‘of Califomia, Tennessee. We got all the craftsmen that we needed to do itright. Our motto has been from day one, ‘We're building a home unto God. and it's got tobe the best that we can possibly ‘build’ I’s got to last Bessie the rest of her life. It ‘cannot fall apart five years down the line. That was ‘our driving theme on this, and that’s what we've done: "Bohannon, who is affiliated with Bayside Bap- tist Church in Harrison, Tennessee, a suburb of Cattanooga, designed the praype building and figured all the materials, "so had to come out ete and do it,” he said. “it's just home mission work is allitis" Bohan- son sud. “We love doing i Trough ths you eta chance to evangelize peopl.” “Rather han eoming in, "beating Bibs over ‘heir heads” and being asked to eave, Bohannon said, "you came ths Way, and by showing ood will, you get the opportunity to show your witness, and they see there's something different about you ‘Bohannon’s Sunday school class mised the miles to . “Pm just an extension of my adult Sunday ‘schoo! clas,” he said. eee eer 32 fee, or multiples of fours and eights so there is very litle waste material, “We just kept it ‘eal simple,” he said. Kitchen, bedroom and bath.” But i's designed to last Wilson a lifetime, “We've got insulation under the floor, in the ‘walls and inthe ceiling, I's like a thermos bot,” Bohannon said. ‘The ceiling, for example, has thick R-38 insula- tion, “That way, even ifshe can't have any het, it ‘will keep the wind out and in the summer time, [keep some of the heat ou,” he said. “It's tremen-

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