The RCA is sending work groups to assist the disaster services of the United Methodist Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Only one in ten persons who lost a home in 1999 has one today. Over 6,000 low-income rental units were lost, and the number of homeless shelters in North Carolina has quadrupled. New Jersey Hurricane Floyd Reconstruction Tropical storm Floyd also caused extensive damage in central New Jersey. Work groups are needed to assist with repairs and renovations to flooded homes in the South Bound Brook area.
Work groups stay at a local Presbyterian church.
After August 2001 the Church World Service camps will close. The RCA has been given the honor of sending the last two work groups. Lakeland Reformed Church of Vicksburg, Michigan, which has sent a work group each year, will send in the next to last group, and Paul Nulton will take in the last work group August 20-30. If you would like to be part of this last work group, please contact Paul. Reformed Church World Service thanks the hundreds of RCA members who have made the Siksayari project possible through their donations of money and tools, as well as gifts for the school and women of Siksayari.