Kansas City Woodwork for Charity

If you try but fail to win the wine cabinet created by Ian Byrne of KC celtic rock group The Elders and donated for the benefit of Operation Breakthrough, you might be interested in an alternative that also helps a charity in Kansas City.

From Newfoundland of Irish ancestry, Patrick Power is a priest of the Redemptorist Order who spends most of his time in Kansas City, in semi-retirement, doing woodwork and serving as a relief priest. His woodwork? Patrick builds coffins for people in Kansas City to help AIDs orphans in Thailand.

One of Power's coffin "customers" in Kansas City uses his box as a wine cabinet:

It'll hold 48 bottles of wine. He's got it in his living room

Power asks people in Kansas City who commission coffins to "make a generous donation" to the Redemptorists' missions throughout the world:

In Thailand, where Power served as a missionary more than 50 year ago, he knows a priest who cares for 120 AIDs orphans, ages 2 through 15. And that's just one of the Redemptorists' three missions in Thailand

Read the full story in The Arizona Daily Star, and maybe order yourself a new bookcase?