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Meet Nathan Montgomery who gave up a lucrative engineering career to start a charity that feeds hundreds of hungry families in his community. In just seven days, team leader Ty Pennington, his designers and hundreds of volunteers will rebuild the crumbling home of Nathan, his wife Jenny and their four children – providing them with comfort and security they now cannot afford for themselves.
Nathan was a promising young engineer on his way to a six-figure management position when he first began volunteering to help the needy. Realizing he wanted to pursue charity work full time, Nathan stepped off the fast track to launch Salt and Light, the philanthropic organization he leads as executive director. Nathan has seen the number of local families in need rise dramatically during the current economic crisis, and Salt and Light now feeds an average of 250 families each week.
Nathan, Jenny and the kids – sons Ashton, 13, and Benjamin, 9, and daughters Addison, 5 and Lillian, 4 – will go on vacation to Walt Disney World while “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” transforms their home. Led by Ty Pennington, the team includes designers Michael Moloney, John Littlefield, Didiayer Snyder, local builder Brady Homes and community volunteers.

My husband, Chuck, was selected to volunteer / work in the exclusive woodworking area for the Extreme Home Makeover project and I was asked to assist with furniture layout in the girl’s room with the designer DiDi.
The opportunity to volunteer with this awesome group was definitely a dream come true for us !
It ended up that my skills and talents were also needed to assist with building furniture for the family! The projects were creatively designed by the EHMO Designers and implemented by the volunteers.
The amount of coordination to build a house this size and quality was unbelievable! The air was energized with people from all walks of life, who basically wanted to help – anyway they could.

View a slide show of some of the work that we have produced. After you have viewed the work, contact me today at 309.825.3368 or lyn@freshimpressions.org to begin enjoying the benefits of my services!