News

5/4/2011

UPDATED 2:30 PM From packing lunches to removing trees, many volunteers are needed across our conference. Please be in touch with the contact person in the area you would like to help before sending teams or supplies. Continue to check the news page at www.ngumc.org or www.facebook.com/ngaumc for the latest information.  Please find previous disaster response updates below. CALL CENTER MATCHES CLEANUP NEEDS WITH TEAMS CONTACT: 678-533-1443 In response to the April storms, the Conference ...

5/2/2011

From packing lunches to removing trees, many volunteers are needed across our conference. Continue to check the news page at www.ngumc.org or www.facebook.com/ngaumc for the latest information. CALL CENTER ESTABLISHED AT SIMPSONWOOD In response to the April storms, the Conference Disaster Response Team has set up a call center to help match cleanup and repair needs with volunteer teams. The phone number for the Call Center is 678.533.1443. GRIFFIN Volunteer teams are needed for tree removal. ...

4/29/2011

Disaster Update:  Friday night, April 29, 2011 JUST IN: CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS THIS WEEKEND IN RINGGOLD Dear UM disaster recovery servants, Many of you have asked how you can help the Ringgold community.  There is an opportunity now.  As you can imagine in a situation as serious and fluid as this one, changes have happened very rapidly. Today we learned that Ringgold UMC will serve as the short-term and long-term site for recovery in partnership with GEMA (Georgia Emergency Management Agency), ...

4/28/2011

From the Director of Connectional Ministries: Bishop Mike Watson joins with me in asking for a special offering to be taken this Sunday (or at a time appropriate for your church), to prepare for the work of disaster response after the storms that caused much damage on Wednesday night. Bishop Watson asks that your prayers and your gifts be directed to the victims of these storms, and is very thankful that our congregations have a strong and long history of generous response to these kinds of ...

3/31/2011

(NEWSCOPE) The United Church of Christ in Japan has established a disaster relief center in the Tohoku District in northern Japan, which was severely affected by the Mar. 11 earthquake and tsunami. The Rev. Jeffrey Mensendiek, a United Church of Christ missionary who serves as director of youth ministries at the Emmaus Center in Sendai, helped set up the center.   The UM Committee on Relief (UMCOR) already has sent an emergency grant to the United Church of Christ in Japan, which is using the ...

8/19/2010

  The Conference Disaster Relief committee received word that UMCOR's Sagar Brown Depot is in great need of cleaning buckets (formerly called flood buckets). There are 2,000 empty buckets at the Disaster Relief warehouse in Austell. The cost is only $2 per bucket. If your church or group is willing to fill some of these buckets, contact the Disaster Relief warehouse at 770.739.9537 to make arrangements. Please note that the buckets must be filled with exactly the supplies on UMCOR's list. For ...

7/23/2010

  By Cynthia Fierro Harvey* Over the course of our 70-year history in relief and recovery work around the world—from Louisiana to Indonesia—the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) has learned that recovery following a catastrophic event takes time if it is to be effective. This has never been so true as it has been in Haiti since a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the country on January 12, 2010. The destruction the earthquake caused is unprecedented, and our efforts in relief and ...

4/14/2010

The North Georgia Conference Disaster Response Committee has been coordinating and overseeing the rebuilding of homes damaged by the 2009 floods in Cobb and Douglas Counties since December.  Thirty-five rebuilding teams comprised of over 357 individuals from 9 states have completed 25 houses allowing the homeowners to move back in their homes.  However, the need to help other families still displaced from their homes continues.  There are at least another 80-100 homes in Cobb and Douglas ...

3/25/2010

The Conference Disaster Response team loaded a truck last week with 26 pallets of health kits and six pallets of flood buckets, all assembled by North Georgians. Mike Yoder, chair of the North Georgia Conference disaster response team, encourages churches to continue kit assembly.  "We have about three thousand kits to be picked up this week.  Two of the three thousand were recently made and dropped off by one local church," states Yoder. "It's amazing to see such an outpouring of support for ...

1/24/2010

At the request of UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief), UMVIM, SEJ (United Methodist Volunteers in Mission, Southeastern Jurisdiction) is collecting contact information for individuals interested in traveling to Haiti to assist in disaster recovery and humanitarian aid. Interested missioners can visit www.umvim.org/haiti  and enter their contact information into the form on that page. This list of contacts will be activated as soon as UMVIM has news about scheduling a mission trip to ...

1/1/2010

The heavy rains, and devastating floods, came and went in September.   And while the story moved out of the headlines weeks ago, it is far from over. The rebuilding will last many more months.   After spending more two months performing initial clean up, while continuing to assess damage resulting from the historic floods, the North Georgia Conference Disaster Response volunteers has only recently begun the rebuilding process.   “It may seem slow, but this has been a deliberate process,” stated ...