Grace Lutheran (Indiana) Church came again, they were here last year and did our first rebuild! This group consists of 5 white men (a contractor, a preacher, his nephew and another church member) and 1 white woman(contractor's wife). They worked the week of 8/5 thru 8/11. They worked 150 hours for an in kind donation of $2775.00. Our local Community Presbyterian Church put them up for the week at their church and the fed them one night. First Untied Methodist Church also hosted them at their Wedenseday night dinner for food and fellowship and had them share their story of thier mission with their church family as well. They had such a good time this year and last year. While here they did some touch up and ggeneral carpentry work on the home they built last year and had fellowship dinner with the family in Clewiston for whom they built they home, this is a retired Mexican couple, the man is disabled but before retireing with diasability he gave over 30 years of service here in our town at a local citrus plant. This family lived on social security and diasability and had not enough insurance to buy a new home after Hurricane Wilma destroyed their trailer. They completed work on a single uninsured low income Mom with two children's roof in Clewiston. In addition, they completed flooring, ceiling, roof and walls for an elderly diabetic disabled man with heart problems who lives with his wife and two grandaughters in Montura, a very remote rural area whose home was underinsured living in a mobile home. The family lives on SSI and the help from FEMA and insurance after Hurricane Wilma damaged their home, was not enough to cover all work. They also removed fence for a working black woman who lives alone. She received assistance from insurance which was not enough to compelte all repairs. She is low income, living alone in a the rural area of Harlem, outside of Clewiston.
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