The official blog of God's Pit Crew. GPC is a crisis response team based out of Danville, VA. For more info, visit godspitcrew.org
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Posted 21, May, 2013

God’s Pit Crew Responds to Oklahoma

Our warehouse is busy as our team is preparing to leave tomorrow morning from Danville, VA to go out to respond to the tragic Oklahoma tornado.

Our trucks are being loaded with blessing buckets (5 gallon buckets filled with bottled water, personal hygiene supplies like towels, toothpaste, sanitizing wipes and canned food) and other supplies to be distributed in the hurting area. Our tool trailer is ready to go, packed with 16 chainsaws, several generators and an entire workshop on wheels. Our other trucks are being loaded with heavy equipment including skid steers to pick up and remove debris. 

Tomorrow morning at 6 am our volunteer drivers and volunteer workers will be loading the trucks and getting on the road to OK to deliver hope to this devastated area.

We’ll post photos and updates here as we have them. If you’d like to support GPC’s relief effort, your money will go straight to bringing help to these hurting people. Godspitcrew.org

Posted 25, April, 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtaUh052npg&feature=youtu.be

Jarrett Johnson, a 12 year old boy who has grown up with God’s Pit Crew, went to Haiti in October of 2011. On the way back, he decided he wanted to build a school for the kids in Haiti that are still affected by the 2010 earthquake. He is asking the kids of America to help the kids in Haiti by collecting change. He believes that when all of the small change comes together, it can add up to something huge. 

If you want to get involved, check out godspitcrew.org to learn about the Kidz Helping Kidz Change for Change Challenge! 

Will you accept the challenge?

Share this video with your friends on facebook and twitter and everywhere else you can think of. Maybe your church could play it? Your school? Get creative and share it with as many people as possible and we can come together to collect change for change!

770 coins were used in the creation of this video.

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Posted 19, February, 2013

Kidz Helping Kidz

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The Project:

In October of 2011, 12 year old Jarrett Johnson (above) visited the nation of Haiti for the first time. He was impacted deeply by the way the children there lived and struggled. While in Haiti, he visited many schools and was amazed by the distances children would travel by foot just to go to school. Even worse were the children in the villages that had no school anywhere near by. 

Upon returning, Jarrett had the idea to raise enough money to build a new school in an area that is in need. His goal is to ask other kids from America to help the kids of Haiti. The project has been called Kidz Helping Kidz. 

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God’s Pit Crew is facilitating the Kidz Helping Kidz project. GPC has set up a special account for this project only. 100% of gifts given to the project go to project costs, no administration costs will come from your gift. Make any checks out to God’s Pit Crew with a memo of Kidz Helping Kidz. 

Our goal is to complete this project by the end of 2013. If we do not meet our fundraising goal, then we will continue to work until this school is finished. GPC director Randy Johnson will be going to Haiti at the end of February to look at the property. The school will be built on land owned by International Missions Outreach. IMO is a Haitian accredited organization that has been in Haiti for 35 years. In that time, they have accumulated 18 schools and are teaching 5,500 kids from prekindergarten through sixth grade. 

The Change for Change Challenge:

An important part of Jarrett’s vision is to have children from the US to help the Haitian children have a school. His idea to do so is to have children gather coins and loose change. He is encouraging classrooms, youth groups, sports teams, and any individual to just set up a jar to drop coins into. We hope that all of these children’s small contributions will add up to a great sum resulting in change in the lives of many in the nation of Haiti.

The Next Step:

After collecting coins, send a check to God’s Pit Crew, 2499 North Main St., Danville, VA 24540 or bring the donation to that same address.  For any more information, contact GPC at 434.836.4472 or email godspitcrew@verizon.net

If kids want to connect with Jarrett himself, email jarrettgpc@verizon.net or leave a message for him on the GPC Facebook or right here on our blog via the ASK button!