Earl Meeks is the Loom Doctor

St. Andrews member, Earl Meeks, is featured in The Initiative for Affordable Housing’s newsletter for making house calls to keep the looms at Weaverhouse in working order.  These looms support re:loom, a non-profit that employs and empowers homeless and low-income individuals through weaving beautifully-designed recycled materials.

Earl, who has designed and made beautiful art works for St. Andrews, uses his skills once a week to regularly check on and fix the many looms used for the re:loom employment program. This retired Georgia Tech physics professor is truly a renaissance man.

Earl is a wonderful woodworker and has carved beautiful handcrafted pieces not only for St. Andrews, but the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, as well as commissioned pieces.

We have a group that supports re:loom with recycled rags.  Look for announcements in the bulletin and the weekly St. Andrews email for how to join the church re:loom group.

For more information, go to re:loom, and to find out more about The Initiative for Affordable Housing here.  St. Andrews has supported and encouraged both these missions since their beginnings.