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Greetings!
What causes goosebumps?
I looked this question up online. I learned that goosebumps happen when tiny muscles at the base of each hair follicle—called arrector pili muscles—contract. This makes the hairs stand up, causing the bumpy look on your skin.
Of course we know being cold gives us goosebumps. But I learned that strong emotions can as well: Feelings like fear, awe, excitement, or inspiration can trigger the same “fight or flight” response, releasing adrenaline.
That adrenaline causes the muscles to tighten, producing goosebumps.
That’s why reading the MDS Field Operations Project Activity Report gives me goosebumps! I am awed and excited by our volunteers.
We have nine national project locations operating this fall and 19 forecasted for the winter season! We will have volunteers working from Maui (responding to the 2023 Lahaina Fires) to Puerto Rico (responding to Hurricane Maria in 2017) and many locations in between. In North Carolina, volunteers are building new resilient private access bridges.
Repairing and building new homes brings goosebumps of awe and excitement to the disaster survivors too.
To make this possible we need your help. Go to our website and signup to volunteer. https://volunteer.mds.org/
We invite you to pray for this faith in action, to give generously, and to bring your friends and volunteer. We have many weekly volunteers already on the winter waitlist, but we urgently need leadership volunteers who can serve for four weeks or more as cooks, crew leaders, office managers, construction supervisors, or project directors. You might get goosebumps too.
P.S. While we have many projects this winter, disaster survivors are in need year-round! Will you make yourself available in the spring and summer, too?
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