Joplin VIM team is set to rebuild

Five Central UMC members will head to Joplin, MO, Saturday March 24th for a week of work in the tornado-damaged city that lost 7,500 homes last spring. Volunteers from all over the nation will converge this month for a massive effort to erect homes now that most of the debris has been cleared away.

Kurt Pelligrino is the VIM team leader and will have Linda Poindexter, Carla Roberts and her friend Jim Rantala and myself...Staton Lorenz...to keep busy. We don't know our assignment yet but are prepared to do whatever is necessary while working with other teams on designated projects.

We'll keep everyone posted on our daily activities via the blog so stay tuned.