MONTGOMERY, WEST VIRGINIA
 

Volunteer housing is provided at Montgomery Presbyterian Church, where two bunk rooms contain 16 bunks each and groups have access to an institutional-sized kitchen. Four showers are available. This location can accommodate up to 32 people. The church also contains a food pantry, a crisis closet and a clothing closet. 

 

 

HAMPDEN, WEST VIRGINIA

  

 

The Freedom Full Gospel Assembly House of Prayer has partnered with WVMAW to open their church for volunteer housing.  There are 5 Sunday School rooms that convert to dormitory space, and cots that can sleep 30.  There are 3 showers, a fully equipped kitchen.  You may also participate in their Tuesday evening youth program!

 

 

 KOPPERSTON, WEST VIRGINIA

 

                        

The Kopperston housing location is in the education building next to Kopperston Community Church.  There are 28 beds, and 4 showers.  There is a small kitchen in the education building, and you have access to the large kitchen in the church as well as the fellowship hall.  

 

 

COLCORD, WEST VIRGINIA
 

The  Colcord location can house up to 28 people, with 5 baths, including showers.  You may worship with the  First Presbyterian Church, Colcord. The church loves to provide cookouts or dinners when groups visit.

 

 

We especially encourage groups who want to participate in the continuation of Marge Booth’s ministry. Marge had a desire that work continue in her beloved adopted Raleigh County.

 

 

  

Marge Booth, 1950-2005

 

“Marge Booth was a dear friend, teacher, sister and a woman who made us better people. She was a person who was as marvelous as the mountains she loved, with a spirit that will last in the hearts of all those who have been privileged to know her.”

 

In the summer of 2006, West Virginia Ministry of Advocacy and Workcamps (WVMAW) established a working ministry in honor of Marge Booth.  Marge was a pioneering PC(USA) missionary in Appalachia who died on August 10, 2005 after 14 years in West Virginia.  A commissioned lay pastor and master electrician, she hosted and supervised work-camp mission groups from 1990 to 2004. During that time, West Virginia was devastated by many floods and mudslides, often attributed to controversial coal-mining methods.  Between 2001 and 2004 as part of WVMAW, Marge oversaw more than 174 volunteer groups (totaling nearly 2,500 people), as they worked on disaster-affected homes, churches and playgrounds.

 

Through continuing projects in the area so long served by Marge, her memory, dedicated service and good works continue in the name of Jesus Christ.