Music Teacher Featured on 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' Thanksgiving Special Airs Friday Night

NEWTOWN SQUARE–Liz Mongan has spent more than two decades teaching music to the kids of . She was an instructor at , and now works at and . The, now, Media resident went to Ridley High School, majored in flute at Penn State University, then completed her student teaching program at .

Mongan says she loves to play the steel drums, so once a week she goes to the University of Delaware to play with Delaware Steel. It’s the school’s premier steel drum band who tours the world, and plays events in the greater Philadelphia area all year long.

The music teacher just added another impressive item to her resume. She volunteered to be a part of ABC's TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition project, but it wasn’t just any home improvement project.

“I saw an ad in the newspaper this summer that volunteers were needed for the show, so I enrolled online. Since all the shifts were taken, I worked 2 to 8 a.m. for six days,” says Mongan. “We helped out a woman who runs a soup kitchen and makes hundreds of quarts of a soup per week.”

Mongan is referring to Rev. Dale Dunning, who founded Jusst Sooup Ministry in Lewes, DE, in 2007. Dunning gets up at 2 a.m. every day to make the soup right in her RV. The soup is then delivered to churches and other organizations to help feed those in need.

The new Jusst Soup Ministry facility should give Dunning more space, as it’s located on several acres off U.S. Route 9 in the Cool Spring community. Homebuilder Schell Brothers donated the land, and Extreme Makeover took care of the construction of Dunning’s new home, industrial kitchen, pavilion and vegetable garden.

“I helped dig up an old fence, helped unload an HVAC truck, and basically anything they needed extra hands for,” says Mongan. “It was neat to see how quickly they can build a house. To watch it in fast motion was amazing.”

Mongan says she was humbled by having been a part of the project.

“It was neat seeing so many people from so many walks of life. I saw a high school girl from Alexandria, VA, and an elderly woman who could barely walk. Everyone coming together was great and there was such positive energy,” she says.

The episode will air as a two-hour Thanksgiving special on 6ABC.