TIPP CITY — A shipping container in the parking lot of a Tipp City Church has made quite the transformation over the past few weeks.
Back in March we showed you the metal container and explained the Tipp City United Methodists Church’s intention to turn it into a mobile classroom.
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Now the walls are built, the doors are in the windows are ready, and in just a couple more weeks, the container will be taken to Florida, loaded onto a ship, and taken to Haiti.
Angie Woo, a mission team member said, “We have had rain and snow and you can’t paint when it’s under 50 degrees we’ve learned…”
Woo has spearheaded the transformation from taking an old, ordinary metal shipping container and turning it into a classroom.
Each classroom has two windows finished flooring, doors, and colorful designs along the outside wall.
This shipping container is now ready to be a mobile classroom but Woo didn’t do this alone.
Volunteers from the church and those who have no affiliation jumped in to help.
“We’ve had 120 people come and paint the outside, build the inside,” Woo told our crews, “the main street preschool painted the flowers around the bottom, we’ve had the youth, the high school build cornhole boards to send to Haiti, we’ve had the parents the grandparents”
Pastor Dan led his congregation and community to send the shipping container off in prayer over the weekend.
This shipping container won’t arrive empty. It will contain flooring for another mobile classroom, food, more than 500 school packs equipped with everything kids will need to excel in the classroom, and nearly 600 hygiene kits for families.
The container is expected to be picked up in Tipp City by late next week.
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