Twenty-one volunteers from Iowa and forty-seven volunteers from Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas have been helping flooding victims in the Des Moines area for the past 10 days. They have been assessing homes for damage, cleaning out homes, providing meals and doing laundry for volunteers and meeting the spiritual and emotional needs of those affected through chaplains.
There have been 7 professions of faith, 54 bibles given out and 57 prayers shared with affected people and work has been completed by the teams in 20 homes so far.
The work is likely to be completed here by the end of the week. Volunteers from out of state have been housed at First Family Church in Ankeny.
