Weekly Report for Anahuac

The young team arrived Sunday night from the Plymouth, Ohio area very eager to start work. Monday morning three teams were sent out from the MDS camp to begin a full and busy week of roofing, and other construction activity. Volunteers started to install hardie-plank at the Little Rock Missionary Church located in Old River-Winfree, Texas (a new building framed two weeks earlier by MDS volunteers from Colorado). After a weekend of heavy rain, the ground around the building was ankle deep in mud, and shoes soon became mud-covered. But, following a little time of serious planning and deep thinking, the tar paper was put in place, and hardie-plank hand nailed properly to the outside of the new building. After completing a tough and good job installing the hardie-plank  the MDS team used a little time making necessary improvements to the roof (even though the roof had been shingled by another volunteer organization). The sharp eyes of a skilled MDS volunteer are always searching, resulting in quality workmanship. 

The weather was perfect all week for a tremendous amount of work to be completed by strong and high energy volunteers and MDS staff. The roof on the homes of Anita and Virginia became a beehive of activity. Both damaged roofs were stripped, re-shingled, and completed in a timely fashion. The roof on the home of Edward was next on the agenda. After replacing several pieces of damaged roof sheeting and facia board, the shingles were started and completed. The home of Amos and Darlene was next. This particular home was covered by insurance, with little money coming back to the homeowners. In order for the homeowner to have the insurance renewed, the insurance company had to inspect the work in three stages. The insurance inspector gave high praises to the MDS volunteers for their quality of work. Two teams now moved over to the home belonging to Ray. This big roof was stripped, papered, and re-shingled with soffit yet to be repaired by the next team of volunteers. The third team had now traveled to the town of Winnie and started working on the roof of the home belonging to Gale. The roof had suffered a large amount of damaged by a tornado created by Hurricane Ike. This work will be carried over for a new team of volunteers for completion.

Amy’s parents and brother (Roy, Sheralyn, and Alex) came from Newton, Kansas to spend a week volunteering with MDS, and working with/for Amy.

“For every house is built by some man, but he that built all things is God.” 

Hebrews 3:4

Gordon, Iva, Anita, Henry, Margret, Amy, Tina, Jared, and Mike