What do you must update today ? by Levi Hutton
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y name is Levi Hutton, and I want to take this opportunity to not only introduce myself but to also give you an update on some of the things I have been a part of as an employee of Crossover Development Company. I spent the majority of my life living in the great state of Montana. I attended college in Joplin, Missouri and graduated with a degree in Intercultural Studies. While in college, and the years following, I worked in a couple of churches as a Youth Minister and Associate Minister. A few years after graduation, I moved to New York City to work with a church plant in Brooklyn. It was there that I met my wife, Chutney. After getting married, we decided to move back to her home town of Tulsa, Oklahoma to be closer to her family. While living in New York, I decided to take my life-long passion for woodworking and carpentry, and turn it into a career. As you can imagine, I did not anticipate God
taking my past experience working with and mentoring kids and pairing it with my life-long passion for carpentry. But He did just that; He matched my experience with my passion because God often does what only He can do, the unimaginable. I began working with Crossover Development Company almost two years ago as the Construction Superintendent. It has been a challenging but equally rewarding experience. Since starting with CDC, we have completely gutted and re-built 4 houses in the Hawthorne neighborhood, worked on countless smaller remodel projects in north Tulsa, and are in the middle of one gut renovation and one remodel simultaneously… now. What I have enjoyed most has been the community that has formed around each and every CDC jobsite. Jerry Seinfeld has a joke about construction sites that I have referenced often as an employee for Crossover Development Company. He jokes that the reason
they put up those plywood fences around the sites is to keep herds of men from wandering onto the site and giving their twocents. We opted not to put up any sort of fence and as a result have folks stopping by and hanging out at the jobsite everyday – kids, neighbors, even friends we have made on a different job will drive over to the new one just to see what we’re up to, to say “hi”, or to drop off something for us to eat. The work we do from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM– providing jobs, beautifying the neighborhood, building homes – is very important. But all of that pales in comparison to the relationships we have built through it, not only as a staff but also the various relationships we have built in the community. I pray that God will continue to use CDC to do the impossible, the work that only He can do. I pray that He will continue His work of transforming us North-Tulsans in order to transform north Tulsa.
Levi Hutton has been married to his stunning wife Chutney for 2.5 years, and they are the proud parents of Ms. Isley Ruth. Levi’s passion for woodworking and people has developed in him a patience that reflects God’s grace and a work ethic that reveals that he is indeed working as unto the Lord. To learn more about Crossover Development Company or to join Levi and his team on a construction site, go to http://crossoverimpact.org/ housing-development/.
