CrossRoads Church at Westfield opens home repair applications

Do you need home repairs?

Building or repairing wheelchair ramps, constructing decks, doing mobile home skirting, or painting the interior or exterior of homes are being offered for free in June 2025. This program is geared primarily toward older adults, veterans, and any low-income families who live in Hamilton County and own their own homes.

This program is offered by CrossRoads Church at Westfield.

Over 200 high school students from all over the United States will come to Westfield next summer for a week to provide free home repair for those in need. This program is being offered in partnership with Group Mission Trips, a youth mission organization based in Ft. Collins, Colo.

“Group Mission Trips serves in 15 to 18 communities in the United States each summer doing week-long youth mission home repair camp,” CrossRoads Lead Pastor Eric Lohe explained. “I have been attending these camps since 2005 working as staff and a volunteer. Our church has sent a number of students and adults to these work camps over the years.”

Group Mission Trips has been providing home repairs throughout the United States for the past 40 years. Learn more at groupmissiontrips.com.

Photo provided by CrossRoads Church of Westfield

“The qualification is very simple,” Lohe told The Reporter. “If you are in need of home repairs so you can live in your house, we want to help. We will not be checking your bank statements. Once you submit an application, we have people from our community who will assess the needed repairs and determine if we have the skills and people power to meet the need.”

Lohe said the effort is one of the four church initiatives called “For Our Neighbor.”

“To help people stay in their homes is the reason for doing the home repairs,” Lohe said. “During the week of June 16 to 20, 2025, church kids and their adult leaders will be coming into our community, live at Westfield Middle School, and go out in smaller groups of six people to serve 25 to 30 homes in Hamilton County. In 2021 and 2023, CrossRoads provided repairs to 53 homes through the same program.

Online applications are available at CrossRoads website at ForOurNeighbor.Life or directly at crchurch.org/for-our-neighbor/home-repairs, and in downloadable PDF format at the above links.

“In addition to seeking home repair sites, we are also seeking businesses or service organizations to be a part of this,” Lohe said. “If a local business or club asks, ‘What can we do?’ I’d say, ‘The kids come back really hungry in the afternoons. Could you cook up some hot dogs and have them available when the kids come back from camp?’ Or one could take out popsicles to a group or to a couple work sites during the week to say, ‘Thank you. We’re glad you are here and thanks for what you are doing.’ This effort is not just about us as a church trying to do something for our neighbor, it’s also about helping people be the best neighbors we can be.”

If you would like to help in these efforts to serve neighbors, email forourneighborinfo@gmail.com.

You can find out more about CrossRoads Church’s many efforts to care for their neighbors online at ForOurNeighbor.Life. The church is located at 19201 Grassy Branch Road, Westfield.

Photo provided by CrossRoads Church of Westfield