Spiritual Rewards of Maintaining a Village Jeremiah Harris: Supervisor Inside Operation—Mainte nance Department
J eremiah Harris provides maintenance for the whole complex—or Village—at Mary Hall Freedom Village: every unit, from offices to apartments. As with all the staff at MHFV, what he sets out to do in a day can change, and he is always ready for whatever comes his way. “In the middle of a project, you get
‘Can you come back tomorrow, and we’ll talk about the cubby?’” He laughs, “That kept going until I was a full-time employee!” Jeremiah believes in MHFV. Jeremiah had never worked for someone else before—he came from a family of entrepreneurs, so he brought his hard work ethic. “I used to work crazy hours, thinking, this job has got to be done. Miss Eloise said, ‘Jeremiah,
many calls in between to do other job assignments.” It’s all about the participants— that is the priority, so if there is an urgent unplanned need, everyone pivots to make it happen. Jeremiah shares, “There is no little part, no giant part. Just the job itself, and all of it saves lives. I’ve seen MHFV save so many lives, from staff to clients. It's an amazing place. I never knew anything like this existed.” It all started for Jeremiah because of a
you know you can get help to do this.’ I said, ‘Oh, okay!’ Helping. That is what Mary Hall Freedom Village is all about. Jeremiah had a revelation when he came on board. “I saw people coming to this place who looked like they had one foot in the graveyard and the other barely in life. Barely. And in my mind and my heart, I was grieving. And my God, in less than a couple of months, these ladies looked like movie stars. Life was so alert in them and so abundant.
piece of furniture. Jeremiah was hired By Eloise (Lucy Hall’s sister) to build a cubby at MHFV. “She showed me around the building. Then she asked, ‘Can you get a box truck?’ ‘Sure!’ I answered. She said, ‘Can you do some stuff around here today, and we can talk about that cubby at the end of the day?’ I did whatever assignments she wanted. By the end of the day, she said,
And I thought, “Oh, that’s what that scripture means! No matter what; if a person falls, there is no place God can't reach them.” Jeremiah is
especially touched by the Daycare program,
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