More volunteers needed in New Orleans
Filed Under: Committee on Relief, COR, New Orleans
More volunteers are needed to help complete the last phase of a rebuilding project in New Orleans organized by a partnership of WELS agencies in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Mr. Mark Vance, disaster relief project coordinator for WELS Committee on Relief reports volunteers with finishing skills such as cabinetry, carpentry, and flooring are needed in April to help complete renovation of about 10 homes. All but one are within a five-mile radius of Crown of Life, the WELS congregation in New Orleans. Some of the homes belong to members of the congregation, others belong to prospects.
The two-year rebuilding project is set to end at the end of April. When it is complete, about 71 homes will have been gutted and about 22 renovated in the partnership between Committee on Relief, which has funded the effort, and Faith in Action and Builders for Christ volunteers—both part of the parasynodical group WELS Kingdom Workers.
Currently, about 30 WELS volunteers are working on-site, 19 from one congregation alone—Christ in Pewaukee, Wis. Vance, who has been involved with the project since it began, says he's confident the needed volunteers will come forward. "It's just continually amazing that the Lord continues to provide exactly what we've needed," he says. "It's a project that just goes on by the will of God."
For more information or to learn how to support the effort financially, go to www.welsrelief.net.
