After our volunteers returned home to Huntsville, Alabama, from helping clean up Hurricane Laura damage in Louisiana, WAFF 48 did a news interview with Danny Walker. "Walker said the highlight of his trip was handing out gift cards to homeowners to help them purchase materials for repairs and providing them with...
Our first PAR team arrived in Jennings, Louisiana, on Monday, August 31. They have been working hard on properties this week to clean up after Hurricane Laura. God has also been working. We look forward to hearing more when our team returns. Please be in prayer for our second team that...
“In 2011 we went through it in our tornado outbreak. . . . We received all of the help from the other groups that came into our area and we try to give back by going and doing that,” said lead organizer Danny Walker. We appreciate Danny representing PAR in this...
On Monday night, August 10, strong storms rolled through Grant, AL. In only a few minutes, strong winds pulled up trees from their roots and scattered them on homes and boathouses. PAR was notified of damage by one of our volunteers. On Friday, August 14, several volunteers gathered to help clean...
While PAR travels to other communities and states as needed, we help the residents in our own communities as well. After a recent storm, our PAR volunteers helped at the Downtown Rescue Mission in Huntsville. They took down a tree that had fallen in the parking lot, then cut it into...
We're preparing to respond. Watch this interview with WAAY-31. "While the group is used to trips like this one, Coronavirus is forcing some changes." "We could be asked to tarp roofs, we could be asked to cut trees and remove that kind of vegetation debris, and we could be asked to go...
We are grateful to our PAR team who served Christ helping those in Mt. Juliet and Lebanon, TN, who were impacted by storms. Join us Thursday night to hear more about the work and also to learn about our upcoming training on March 21. 1. Monthly Meeting March 12, Thursday ...
Instead of our regular monthly meeting in February, we'll be touring UMCOR in Decatur, AL, on Thursday, February 13. Meet at the PAR warehouse at 5:30 p.m. (not our normal 6:00 p.m.). From there, we'll carpool to UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) in Decatur, AL, to tour their disaster...
You hear the wind. Feel the rain. See the destruction. But it's the hearts you touch that matter the most. When tornadoes, storms, hurricanes, and floods drenched homes in 2019, you were there. You moved limbs, boards, and saturated remnants of a life. You were also there moving hearts. For every property you cleaned,...
We appreciate our PAR volunteers who cleaned up tornado damage in Town Creek from storms on Monday, December 16, 2019. For more photos, see our Facebook album here. [gallery type="slideshow" ids="18321,18322,18323,18324,18325,18326,18327,18328,18329,18330,18331,18332,18333,18334"]...