{"id":45239,"date":"2020-03-20T09:57:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T13:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=45239"},"modified":"2020-03-30T07:22:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T11:22:03","slug":"students-assist-rebuilding-efforts-following-hurricane-damage-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/students-assist-rebuilding-efforts-following-hurricane-damage-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Students assist rebuilding efforts following hurricane damage in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Hurricane Florence poured 30 inches of rain in Pollocksville, North Carolina in 2018 and caused a storm surge on the nearby Atlantic coast, leading to extensive flood damage to homes in the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over spring break at the beginning of this month, eight students from Eastern Mennonite University and campus pastor Brian Martin Burkholder<\/strong> went down to help ongoing efforts to rebuild. Video and photography manager Macson McGuigan<\/strong> documented their trip in the photo essay below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team travelled as part of Y-Serve, formerly known as the Young People\u2019s Christian Association. They plan service-oriented Y-Trips each fall and spring break, and are the longest-running student organization at EMU. Y-Serve aims to \u201cserve others as the hands and feet of Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Y-Serve trips this spring took students throughout the southern U.S. on a civil rights tour; to Bethlehem Farm, an intentional community in West Virginia; and to Virginia\u2019s eastern shore to pitch in with Habitat for Humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Y-Serve partnered with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) for the trip, which has been rebuilding in the area since last fall.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jessie Landis digs a post hole for a flight of steps.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jasmyne Johnston runs screws into the treads on a new set of stairs the team built.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Students display the buried ‘treasures’ they found while digging post holes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hannah Thomas sprays insulation into the crevice between the wall and the floor.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jonas Beachy and Jonathan Reimer-Berg hoist a generator onto the back of the MDS truck.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jessie Landis works up a batch of concrete with a trowel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a long day of work at the job site in nearby Trenton, North Carolina, Katie Meza plays volleyball with another service group from Canada.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jonas Beachy plays volleyball at the Pollocksville Baptist Church Parsonage, which serves as MDS\u2019s home base in the area.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jessie Landis delights in the sport.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jonathan Reimer-Berg focuses intently on an after-dinner game of Dutch Blitz.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laura Troyer and Jessie Landis share a laugh between cuts with the miter saw.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jonathan Reimer-Berg mixes concrete.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reuben Peachey-Stoner cuts lumber for the stairs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Underneath the house, Jonas Beachy installs fiberglass insulation between floor joists.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brian Martin Burkholder and Jonas Beachy work on framing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Katie Meza and Jessie Landis fill and tamp post holes with dirt while building a handicap-accessible ramp.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reuben Peachey-Stoner runs screws for the ramp.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hannah Thomas installs vinyl siding.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jonathan Reimer-Berg fastens siding to the house.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Jessie Landis, Hannah Thomas, Katie Meza, Jasmyne Johnston, Reuben Peachey-Stoner, Jonathan Reimer-Berg, Jonas Beachy, and Laura Troyer stand on the front deck they built.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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