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If you want to help with an ongoing recovery effort, there are many to choose from: Find recovery sites closer to home in the Northeast Jurisdiction or check the see the complete long-term recovery site list maintained by the South Central Jurisdiction.

In late September 2016, Hurricane Matthew hit North Carolina, causing massive

flooding, and that recovery effort is ongoing and needs volunteers.  Often the latest disaster gets attention while the ongoing work – such as from the 2016 floods in North Carolina, Louisiana and West Virginia or the ice storms and tornadoes that have hit Oklahoma – is forgotten.
 
Here’s a story from one team that has helped with the ongoing recovery efforts in North Carolina. Pastor Roy Richardson, who serves Stafford Springs UMC in Connecticut, recently took a team of nine volunteers to Washington, N.C. The project was to build a new home for someone whose home had been flooded out many times. The great thing was it was built outside the flood zone.
 
The team started from the foundation; they built the floors, outside walls, and added the sheath. Then they put in all the walls, which will be ready for sheetrock once the wiring and heat and A/C can be installed. The next team will put on the trusses and roofing.
 
Pastor Richardson’s team was invited back, and is planning a trip for spring 2018, as the NC Conference is planning 100 homes in the next four or five years. Watch our Disaster Response: Latest News page for more.