Heritage UMC in D'Iberville has been active in helping its community recover
since the first days after the storm. After running a distribution center that served over
1,500 persons a day for an entire month, Rev. David Cumbest, pastor, and the congregation switched their focus to long-term recovery, housing teams of volunteers coming to work.

Heritage has housed more than 28,156 volunteers - many sleeping in the sanctuary before the new dormitory was completed - and logged nearly 555,000 hours of volunteer labor. And the volunteers are still coming, with groups scheduled through November of 2008.

The church recently built a new classroom addition, which will now be used temporarily as disaster recovery warehouse space.

With funding from two UMC Conferences in Indiana, a volunteer dormitory has rcently been completed. The new dormitory has eight showers and a kitchen, and is capable of housing up to 50 volunteers at a time.

In the year 2007 alone, over 3,000 Volunteers worked through HUMC.

What an outstanding way to witness to those affected by Hurricane Katrina!

If you are interested in helping with Katrina Missions, or scheduling a group mission trip, please use the Contact Us button in the left navigation bar to send us an e-mail. We would love to hear from you!

Schedule of Volunteers

Daily Loads

The Dining Hall and Bunk Rooms are a welcome
change from palletes in any free space.

Having room to store materials helps volunteers
focus on the many repair requests still coming.

Mrs. Sheila will gladly give you a job as well!