Winter Work Projects 2012
The year of 2011 has been a year of unprecedented natural disasters throughout the world and in our own country. Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and wildfires resulting from severe drought have brought destruction, hardship and even death to many throughout the world. Homes, schools, hospitals, churches and businesses have been lost.
Lives have been changed forever. In some cases, entire communities have lost their identity. People struggle to make a new beginning and continue on with life... life that will never be the same.
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. Galatians 6:10
Opportunities to serve in 2 projects…
There is great need and the opportunities to serve are many. Two winter work projects will provide many openings for those who have a heart to serve. Beginning in January there will be projects in:
In both locations, the work will involve building homes for victims of natural disasters. World Relief tool trailers and vehicles will be available in both locations. Both skilled tradesmen and unskilled workers are needed. There is a job for every willing heart.
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In Alabama, multiple tornadoes ripped through the town of Cullman on April 27th. Winds of one hundred seventy-five miles per hour destroyed around five hundred homes and businesses in the Cullman area. Many more tornadoes brought devastation to other areas of the state. There where thirty-eight tornadoes reported in sixteen counties across north Alabama. Nearly 200 people died in Alabama as a result of tornadoes on that day.
For information on the Cullman work project.
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Bastrop, Texas
In Texas where severe drought had turned the countryside into a tinder box. Wildfires, fanned by strong winds from Tropical Storm Lee, burned approximately 34,000 acres in Bastrop County. Around 1,500 homes were destroyed as a result of these rapidly moving flames. There were two deaths in Bastrop County as a result of the fire. Throughout the state of Texas, more than four million acres have burned since mid-November of 2010. Close to three thousand homes have been lost.