NEWS ARCHIVES

Many of our Summer project teams received amazing comments from our Hosting United Methodist agencies: From Period 7 projects: "Excellent team - love them - wish we could keep them year round." "Always a great help on campus. The individuals were great!" "The Nomads were great. They worked well with very little instruction and some guidance on what materials they needed. Got almost all of the work done. I know they were a little frustrated with not getting everything done but they got a lot ...

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    Hinton Rural Life Center has been blessed for many years by the efforts of teams of United Methodist NOMADS -- Nomads On a Mission Active in Divine Service. NOMADS provide volunteer labor, such as new construction, remodeling, repairs, and maintenance for UM organizations.  From  April 18 through May 5, a team of five NOMADS undertook and completed a serious remodel of the Patterson Cottage, which included drywall, priming and painting, ...

Many of our Spring project teams received amazing comments from our Hosting United Methodist agencies: From Period 5 projects: "Their work was efficient and timely. They were flexible with weather, materials, and projects which made their stay with us invaluable. We are grateful for their ministry."  Camp Sumatanga, Gallant, AL "I say it again an awesome team during the entire 3 week project."  Camp J. D. Tygart, Ray City, GA "A great team that worked well together. Skilled volunteers. They ...

The following article is from the Southern Institute For Appropriate Technology, Servants in Faith and Technology, Lineville, Alabama.  The story relates to how our work, whether it be at a church camp, children’s home, local church, or on a disaster rebuild project, impacts those that we encounter.  I know that many of you have had the opportunity to work around youth at camps, homeowners on community outreach and disaster rebuilding projects, and church members on local projects.   How many of...

Click on the link below to see the article on Nomads at Camp Tekoa /files/content/www/images/nomads+at+tekoa.pdf

Click on the link to read the article from the Michigan Area UMC Camping on Wesley Woods Camp in Dowling, Michigan: https://umcamping.org/news/wesley-woods-grant-paves-the-way-for-nomads/

Our period 4 projects ended March 24, 2022 and our agencies who had projects have reported incredible results: "The team did an incredible amount of work and were very professional. This was a great group with a variety of skills and a very strong work ethic. We had no issues and were thrilled with the amount of work they accomplished and quality of work the provided." "Wonderful group with many talents! The full group worked well with one another." "Awesome, Amazing, Wonderful! We are so ...

Membership Dues Yes, it's time to pay membership dues for the next year.  Our dues year ends March 31st, and you can login to the website and click on "Dues-Membership Status" to see when you last paid and if you have paid for the next year.  Quite a few of you have already paid, and our new members who joined since the first of the year have also paid through March 31, 2023. While you are on that page you can click on PAY DUES NOW and use a credit card, or you can mail a check to our mailing ...

We had 2 days of drywall mudding work at Gwen's house, and then we moved to another home to try to finish up there. Insulated walls and ceilings, installed Hardie siding to front wall and installed soffit to two sides of a home. First time Nomads worked at this home on Hale St. Gwen's home was being worked on by Fuller Disaster to make sure all mudding was completed so that on Monday our new team can spray ceilings and walls with texture and then prime and paint.  Shared by our team leaders, ...