DISASTER RELIEF
District disaster coordinator Loren Habegger recently shared a few upcoming opportunities for volunteer needs:
* Brethren Disaster Ministries (BDM) is seeking additional volunteers April 16-22 and 23-29 in the Campton area of eastern Kentucky to repair homes damaged in July 2022 flooding.
*The week of May 7-13, additional volunteers are sought to join Frederick (Md.) Church of the Brethren as they assist at a Mennonite Disaster Services project in Crisfield, Md. That area was hit by tidal flooding in fall 2021.
For more information on those opportunities, contact BDM program assistant Kim Gingerich at 410-635-8730 or kgingerich@brethren.org.
*Closer to home: As has been the practice in recent years, the Illinois/Wisconsin District has agreed to provide up to eight volunteers for the week following Thanksgiving, Nov. 26–Dec. 2, 2023. That week of volunteering again will be shared with the South/Central Indiana District. A major change from recent past Brethren Disaster Ministries assignments, is that the project site, Dawson Springs, Kentucky, is a relatively nearby “neighbor,” just 70 miles south of Evansville, Indiana. This provides a great opportunity for those who want to serve with BDM but hesitate to travel hundreds of miles to a project site.
Dawson Springs was in the path of the devastating outbreak of tornados that swept through eight states in December 2021 with Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri the most heavily impacted. Estimates are that around 75 percent of the town of Dawson Springs, which was home to around 2,500 people, was leveled by a tornado. More information about the Dawson Springs BDM project is at www.brethren.org/bdm/rebuild/projects.
Click here to access a complete 2023 schedule for the Dawson Creek project. In addition to the week of Nov. 26, there are openings in other weeks in 2023 with the opportunity to join other districts. To register your interest in joining this year’s Illinois/Wisconsin group, contact our district disaster coordinator, Loren Habegger. To volunteer with other groups for the listed openings, contact Kim Gingerich at kgingerich@brethren.org.
* Brethren Disaster Ministries (BDM) is seeking additional volunteers April 16-22 and 23-29 in the Campton area of eastern Kentucky to repair homes damaged in July 2022 flooding.
*The week of May 7-13, additional volunteers are sought to join Frederick (Md.) Church of the Brethren as they assist at a Mennonite Disaster Services project in Crisfield, Md. That area was hit by tidal flooding in fall 2021.
For more information on those opportunities, contact BDM program assistant Kim Gingerich at 410-635-8730 or kgingerich@brethren.org.
*Closer to home: As has been the practice in recent years, the Illinois/Wisconsin District has agreed to provide up to eight volunteers for the week following Thanksgiving, Nov. 26–Dec. 2, 2023. That week of volunteering again will be shared with the South/Central Indiana District. A major change from recent past Brethren Disaster Ministries assignments, is that the project site, Dawson Springs, Kentucky, is a relatively nearby “neighbor,” just 70 miles south of Evansville, Indiana. This provides a great opportunity for those who want to serve with BDM but hesitate to travel hundreds of miles to a project site.
Dawson Springs was in the path of the devastating outbreak of tornados that swept through eight states in December 2021 with Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri the most heavily impacted. Estimates are that around 75 percent of the town of Dawson Springs, which was home to around 2,500 people, was leveled by a tornado. More information about the Dawson Springs BDM project is at www.brethren.org/bdm/rebuild/projects.
Click here to access a complete 2023 schedule for the Dawson Creek project. In addition to the week of Nov. 26, there are openings in other weeks in 2023 with the opportunity to join other districts. To register your interest in joining this year’s Illinois/Wisconsin group, contact our district disaster coordinator, Loren Habegger. To volunteer with other groups for the listed openings, contact Kim Gingerich at kgingerich@brethren.org.
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