Volunteers team up with non-profit to build beds for children in need [Video]

EDITOR’S NOTE: The video misidentifies Sleep in Heavenly Peace RGV President Erik Makrush. We apologize for the error. 

A non-profit organization kicked off its Rio Grande Valley chapter by teaming up with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in McAllen by building beds for children in the community.

The non-profit organization, Sleep in Heavenly Peace, hosted the Saturday bed making event. 

The goal, according to organizers, is to hold this event up to five times a year.

“Basically, we just come and build beds and that way we can just come and give them to families who don’t have a bed,” Sleep in Heavenly Peace RGV President Erik Makrush said. “Any kid who doesn’t have a bed from the ages of 3 to 18, they can apply, and we can give them a bed.”

Lance Ames, president of the Mission stake for the Church of Jesus Christ of …