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GEORGE RUE
A team from Salem UMC spent a week this summer refurbishing a mobile home in the Cumberland Mountains of southeastern Kentuck, where a family of six lives. 
WOLFSVILLE ? Eighteen members and friends of Salem UMC, from teens to grandparents, spent a week in August repairing homes for the Red Bird Mission Work Camp in Harlan County, Ky. The church has fielded a group for several years, under the leadership of Richard and Kathy Queen. The work camp is one of 15 missions supported by the congregation, which provided more than $1,500 for materials.

The team spent the week refurbishing a mobile home which housed a family of six in this impoverished Appalachian area. The home had been flooded and was given to the family for housing. 'The plumbing was terrible. The sewer just emptied into a 55-gallon barrel. The kitchen sink ran on the ground,' Kathy Queen said.

No longer. The team installed new plumbing, replaced old bathroom fixtures, repaired water leaks, replaced front windows and door, and put down new floors. 'We left the family in pretty good shape,' Queen said.


                                                                  -Across the Conference is compiled 
and written by Linda Worthington

 




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