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Weekly Reports

Coastal Bend, TX – Feb 21-25, 2022

Arriving on Sunday this week was a group from IA – six young men and five young ladies,  several of who have served with MDS before.   On Monday a crew went to Gregory, working on the final check list there.  Another group of volunteers went to...

Coastal Bend, TX – Feb 14-18, 2022

On Sunday afternoon we went to Corpus Christi to pick up five young ladies from New York who will be volunteering for the week.  It was fun to see them again as they had served with a couple of us some years ago in Jamestown, CO!  They are glad to...

Coastal Bend, TX – Feb 7-11, 2022

On Sunday evening a group of 12 cousins arrived from Ohio to volunteer this week.  They should be able to enjoy some warm, sunny weather while here in Texas! Monday morning found 9 volunteers at the new Habitat build.  They were ready to put up the...

Coastal Bend, TX – Jan 31-Feb 4, 2022

Merlyn, from Ontario, Canada, joined us as a long term volunteer this week.  He will be a crew leader with us for four weeks.  Several groups of short term volunteers arrived on Sunday evening, 15 from Ohio, and two from Illinois.   We began the...

Coastal Bend, TX – Jan 1-14, 2022

January 5th found some of the long term team arriving in Rockport to get camp set up for volunteers.  This wasn’t too difficult as Disaster Aid Ohio had been using the camp in the fall and had recently left shortly before Christmas.  There are...

Coastal Bend, TX – Dec 6-11, 2021

As we prepare for the winter break, our team continues work on several of the new builds.  We have ramps to put on two homes one in Taft and one in Refugio.  The home in Refugio belongs to Roxanne.  She came by for a visit last week as it was...

Coastal Bend, TX – Nov 14-21, 2021

In 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Paul writes “give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in everything; hold fast to what is good.”  We here at Coastal Bend are giving thanks for God’s hand of protection over our group as...

Coastal Bend, TX – Nov 7–13, 2021

The group just finished up Mike Halfmann’s home and the joy that was expressed by Mike and Jeannie touched each one of us.  Mike has been working on this home since Hurricane Harvey in 2017.  We laid flooring throughout home, painted trim and...

Coastal Bend, TX – Oct 11-14, 2021

It has been such a joy and blessing to see the development of the families now living at Tierra De Esperanza (Land of Hope).  We had joined with Storm Aid of Ohio and Coastal Bend Disaster Recovery Group in the dedication of these homes in the...