Lutheran volunteers have been here, helping to do the things I cannot do myself. Dale and Jean Peercy, Lutheran Disaster Response project managers, have been working in Watertown, South Dakota, with volunteers from South Dakota and Pennsylvania, New Jersey and California, Iowa and Ohio, to begin to clean out and repair homes. Many of the homeowners are elderly, and unable to comprehend the level of damage and devastation they face. In the greater Watertown area, some sixty-six houses remain in need of significant repair. Volunteers are needed now, right now, in all three states.
Housing is available, and jobs are in abundance.
While volunteers with a variety of skill levels are important, especially needed are persons with special skills, such as plumbers, electricians, carpenters, sheet metal workers, furnace installers, and drywall hangers.