Mark your calendars for the Region IV 2009 Fall Annual Meeting! It will be held in Upland, California, September 11-12, 2009.

Region IV RV Project in Green Valley Lake

Located between Los Angeles and San Diego counties, Green Valley Lake is at 7200 feet and surrounded by a National Forest. For all these reasons it has remained a very small, picturesque and uncrowded area.

The small town boasts a pretty little lake that is stocked often with fish and has a small beach for swimming.

It is here during the California fires of 2007 that Miss Brenda lost her small home on the side of the hill. The local Recovery Committee for San Bernardino asked the California MDS Unit for help in rebuilding her home. Working together with Catholic Charities, Red Cross, Hearts and Home organization, the California Unit put together a RV Project that started on July 6, 2009.

This project came together in record time because of the cooperation between all the faith-based organizations. When the advance RV Team of Pat and Walt Willems and Don and Marilyn Buller arrived to set up the Camp for the RV’s, the plans had been approved, the permits issued, and a local contractor started building a unique foundation on the side of a hill. To avoid new, stringent building codes the home will be built in the same footprint as the one that burned. The house will be built with a garage and utility room below and the 700 square foot home on the second level.

The Willems and the Bullers set up a camp for six RV’s, MDS Office trailer and borrowed a tool trailer from the Arizona Unit since the California tool trailer is on loan to the binational project in Dulzura, California.

Region IV Meeting

The annual Region 4 meeting took place in Filer, Idaho on October 31 and November 1, 2008.

To download minutes and reports from the meeting, click on the items below:

Region IV Annual Meeting Minutes

Articles of Operation

Oregon Report

Washington Report

California Report