On Tuesday, Dec. 21, Sydney Stenberg came home.

She arrived back to find the Aldergrove house she and her husband Cam shared with her parents, Ken and Corinna Wiebe, had been transformed.

She was speechless, then a little teary-eyed, and so was her family.

Inside, both upstairs and downstairs, had been completely redone.

New appliances, new plumbing, new wiring, new floors, ceilings, walls and windows, with professional decorators making each room look like a show home.

There were Christmas trees on both floors, and Christmas lights outside.

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About all that was left of the original house was the siding and the roof, the result of more than 40 days of intense work by volunteers and donor companies coordinated by the 91原创-based .

With her husband, Sydney, who has an inoperable form of clival chordoma, a rare and malignant type of spinal cancer, had to move in with her parents, living in an unfinished basement, in a house that had become somewhat run down because of the financial burden of her illness on the family.

Their wishes were modest. A finished downstairs with a wheelchair-accessible bathroom and, maybe, a kitchen.

LifeApp co-directors Jonathan and Teresa Penner said that was all they intended, at first.

鈥淲hen we took on the project we told Mom and Dad we could only do the basement,鈥� Teresa recalled.

But then, people wanted to do more.

鈥淎nd very quickly as we took over the house, the flooring supplier said they wanted to supply the entire house and the painter wanted to paint the entire house,鈥� Teresa explained.

鈥淚t mushroomed,鈥� Jonathan remarked, 鈥渋n a good way.鈥�

Eventually,, donating materials and time that Jonathan estimated was worth around $200,000 of in-kind contributions.

He believes it is probably the largest project LifeApp has ever been involved with.

One contractor, who had ALS, directed his crew from a walker while they tore out old concrete and poured replacements.

He told the Penners he had never come on a job site and 鈥渆xperienced the community spirit of trades helping trades鈥� as he had at the Aldergrove site.

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Jonathan gave a shout-out to the Township of 91原创, 鈥渢heir home inspectors and their whole team responded quickly. They were so generous with their time.鈥�

鈥淲e couldn鈥檛 have done it without the Township,鈥� Teresa added.

After touring the house, grateful mom Corinna stood on the steps and told the volunteers she had something to say to them.

 鈥淭hank you, thank you, thank you,鈥� she said, adding 鈥渨ords cannot express鈥� their gratitude.

Meanwhile, a GoFundMe campaign by LifeApp to help 鈥淪鈥� has, as of Wednesday, Dec. 22, raised a little more than $46,000 toward its $75,000 goal.