US DISASTER RESPONSE[Barre Vermont Flooding]The last few days in Vermont have been highly rewarding! We’ve put in long days of hard work, and we are usually tired but satisfied by the time we get back to the church house, which doubles as our base.For many of the locals, this is not the first flood in …
My journey with PCCR started in August of 2021, when Daniel Beiler asked me to join a response team to do medical evacuations after the earthquake in Haiti. I’m an EMT and was already interested in becoming a part of Plain Compassion, and when the January ’22 training got scheduled, I signed up right away. …
Early one morning a team of 6 and 260 food parcels packed in 2 vans, headed out again to the Eastern frontlines of Donetsk to the town of “Velyka Novasilka”. This was my fourth time here, and as we arrived, I was struck by how there were far fewer people gathering than usual. There was also …
Destruction.So much destruction.Broken dreams.Broken families.Broken hearts. So much brokenness, both physically and emotionally.Nearly everywhere you look when we go east to the frontlines you see destruction and brokenness. Places that once were alive with life, laughter, friends, families, bright hope and dreams for the future, and good times, now lay in broken emptiness and rubble. Hiding in …
A lot of destruction! That’s my description. I didn’t know what I was going to see, and it can almost be discouraging to see how much work needs to be done. It’s been a great experience working with PCCR, from talking with two older ladies about why this would happen to them to seeing people offer …