The Future Goals of "HIS Hands" Ministry
No better time in history to be a professional handyman or even a contractor
Our society is becoming less and less handy, while our homes and businesses are getting more complex, and people are relying more and more on others to do what previous generations did themselves. Simple tasks such as house-cleaning, painting, lawn and garden care, and all the other things a handyman does.
There has never been a higher demand for our services. But, truth be told, even though there is a high demand for our services, many homeowners find it challenging to find good service providers. Especially when people think of handyman work as not being a glamorous career choice ~ "just some guy with a truck and some tools". It's no wonder fewer and fewer young adults have the skills needed to do the work.
Admittedly, in my experience, back when I had a full workshop, I often had "Techie" type young adults come visit my shop and invariably they'd say things like "I wish I could do something like that", "where did you learn to do all this?", "I'd give anything to come and see you working here" and on and on. Honestly there is no lack of desire for young people to do physical work, they've just grown up behind a key board and monitor and have never been exposed to the skills of a handyman.
Therefore my future goal is to re-establish a full workshop, (details of what that entails will come at a later date), and begin teaching our future generations the skills I was exposed to over 60 years ago.
Yet, being a skilled handyman takes far more than just knowledge of how to do woodworking, or fixing a leaking pipe or switching out a broken light switch. Being an all around handyman requires not just industrial art skills, it requires fine art abilities as well. That doesn't mean one has to be an artist, it means one must has the passion of an artist and that is not something that can be taught. I believe that that kind of passion is contagious and is passed from one artist to another.
I'm sure that many who have looked through my photo gallery of my work wondered why I included so many pictures of my "fine art". It's not because I expect any of my friends and neighbors to commission any fine art work from me, it's there to illustrate the depth and breadth that passion can take one. And once someone catches that passion it becomes a part of them forever.
I don't expect anyone that catches the passion to follow in my footsteps of doing work without a firm grip on their financial future, as I'm doing with this ministry. I confess that I have hope that perhaps one or two might take over the ministry in the (hopefully) far-off future. But rather I hope and pray that they learn that doing a project right has far more benefits than the hassles of dealing with doing shoddy work. One might have notices I have never use the words clients or customer, that is because I don't see those that I serve as such, I refer to them as friends and neighbors because that is how I see them, and as such I would never consider passing on subpar work, that is the passion I hope to instill in our future generations.
Again I confess, I can not achieve my future goals, "what I believe to be my most important goals" alone. I need the help of friends and neighbors. But until I prove to you though the work I do I cannot expect anyone to consider supporting my ministry.