Your church or organization can host the pre-fabrication of loft house panels right in your parking lot. Construction of these simply designed panels requires only basic skills on the part of work teams. A small "pre-cut" team works on the Friday before the build to cut and mark lumber to precise measurements and angles for the panels. An advance team on Saturday morning can then lay out all the pieces that make each panel before the rest of the participants show up. A church "pre-fab" build is an "all-invited" event for the entire church family. Everyone from toddlers to grandparents can have a part.

Properly publicized, the event can be a great outreach opportunity to your community, inviting the unchurched to help in a project that benefits the poor and introduces them to your church. Many non-believers will accept an invite to this building project that would otherwise reject an invitation to church. Only basic tools are needed: chop saw, circular saw, chalk line, nail puller, framing square and many, many hammers. A church group with minimum instruction can easily finish the prefabbed panels in a church parking lot in just a few hours. Plan on a break for lunch and fellowship then load the panels like a sandwich on their side, onto dual-axle flatbed trailers (like those used by dirt bike and atv riders). Other members of your church body who don't feel comfortable swinging a hammer can participate by collecting items for a "care package" to the Mexican family: rice, beans, house wares, bedding. Or they can sew curtains for the 4 windows (36" square).