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Report 2000
Affiliate Reports
Friends Disaster Service
The last half of 1999 found FDS still very much involved with Hurricane Mitch recovery in Honduras. We continued to help supply personnel for medical response teams and then sent construction teams who helped build new bridges and a church.
Our interaction with Friends Church Southwest and visitation to their Yearly Meeting Sessions resulted in their becoming an active part of the FDS structure. Southwest now has their own tool trailer and FDS coordinators appointed.
July, August, and September, FDS volunteers from several states helped with recovery and rebuild near Oklahoma City and Mulhall, Oklahoma, after a category 5 tornado there.
October, 1999, 31 persons from North Carolina FDS traveled to New Mexico and built (supplying all material) a council house/medical center for Navajos, after fire destroyed their uninsured building. They also took truck loads of food, furniture, gifts, and necessities.
October, 1999, FDS groups from several states gathered at Clarksville, Ohio to construct a home for the Warnock family, victims of the Cincinnati tornado.
September, 1999, Hurricane Floyd did to eastern North Carolina what Mitch did to Honduras. Flooding and destruction was widespread and severe.
FDS asked for an immediate response with relief supplies. There was an exceptionally good response from Friends.
From January through April, FDS made repeated trips to Greenville, North Carolina and Franklin, Virginia helping rehab flooded homes from Hurricane Mitch.
Other responses were to tornadoes in Kansas and fire rebuilds in North Carolina and Ohio.
In all this busyness, Oswald Chambers reminds us, “Beware of anything that competes with loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competitor to devotion to Jesus is service to/for Him.”
Thank you to all who served so sacrificially this year.
Dean Johnson
