Eight representatives of our Meeting joined Friends and 40 others with North Carolina Friends Disaster Relief Services for a work camp in LaFitte, Louisiana, the first week of January. We helped build a new house 12 feet off the ground to replace one wrecked by Hurricane Ike. For an elderly widow we also rebuilt her old house heavily damaged by both hurricanes Ike and Katrina.

This is the third year representatives of our Meeting have joined Quakers from North Carolina in week long workcamps. Our group has included Joe and Danuta Moon, their 2 young adult children and Joe's 84 year old father; Peggy Pillard, Linda Robertson, Howard Frysinger, Bill Ewing, Richard Reinert, several others and Doug Herron, the organizer.

North Carolina Friends Disaster Service is an outreach ministry of North Carolina Yearly Meeting. Volunteers, services and contributions towards the work of NCFDS come from many different faiths. When winds, flood, fire or some other disaster destroys or seriously damages a home, NCFDS is ready to respond to the under or non-insured. It’s through this service that volunteers—both men and women—with varying backgrounds and ages come together sharing their gifts of time, talents, and love, to build or repair a house for the family home. It has been said that NCFDS doesn’t just rebuild houses but rebuilds lives.

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