DISASTER RESPONSE

We found 16 additional articles filed under disaster response. They're listed below, most recent first.

1. Sager Brown Hits the Road
   04/01/2013 -- The Sager Brown depot operated by United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) in Baldwin, La., is best known as a place where thousands of volunteers spend a week or two each year packing relief supplies for disaster victims.
2. Sustainable and Abundant Life
   03/22/2013 -- When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast last October, flooding homes, train stations and even halting Wall Street trading, it shook more than buildings. Coming on the heels of summer wildfires, droughts that caused more than half of all U.S. counties to b...
3. Climate Change
   03/06/2013 -- As United Methodist Women members, we can educate ourselves about climate change and raise it as an issue in our congregations, even if it generates controversy.
4. After the Storm
   02/01/2013 -- United Methodist Women members serve areas hit hard by Hurricane Sandy.
5. Hurricane Sandy: The New Normal
   11/08/2012 -- We have a challenging recovery ahead from Hurricane Sandy. Unfortunately, we will be dealing with more such devastating disasters, which may become our new normal.
6. Hurricane Isaac's Impact on National Mission Institutions
   08/31/2012 -- As hurricane Isaac sweeps through the Gulf Coast, it is important to keep our sisters and brothers in our minds, hearts and prayers.
7. The Intersections of United Methodist Women and UMCOR
   04/27/2012 -- A United Methodist Women MeetUp on Thursday, April 25 during General Conference highlighted the connectional ministries of United Methodist Women and the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
8. National Seminar: Mission Reconciliation
   01/03/2012 -- United Methodist Women taps U.S. civil rights history and new technology to engage the ministry of reconciliation in Birmingham, Alabama.
9. The Day My World Was Turned Upside Down
   05/06/2011 -- An update on the recent tornado that devastated Alabama and other parts of the South, from Women's Division director Lynn Hamric.
10. Just for Girls
    05/03/2011 -- Girls find a haven from abuse and a safe place to laugh at the YWCA in Petionville, Haiti.
11. Nation Under Rubble
    05/03/2011 -- Women struggle to survive in post-quake Haiti.
12. United Methodist Women Reach out to Japan
    03/20/2011 -- United Methodist Women are praying for the Japanese people and for all of the missionaries and mission institutions in the country that was hit by earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown on March 11.
13. Mission Agency in Prayer for Japan, Mission Personnel and Volunteers Safe
    03/14/2011 -- The United Methodist Church's mission agency expressed deep concern for the people of Japan and its own personnel and partners in that country in the wake of the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
14. Pakistan Flood Update from Women's Division Partners
    09/10/2010 -- Faith and funding partners of United Methodist Women in Pakistan report that recent flooding in Pakistan has hit the poorest of the poor and has further deepened poverty among those living at the lowest economic level.
15. Haiti Relief, Six Months after the Quake
    07/12/2010 -- They aren't out of the woods, not by a long shot. But over the past 6 months, the Haitian people have begun to mobilize for recovery. UMCOR is there-digging in for the long haul.
16. Directors Set 2011 Budget, Criteria for International Disaster Response at Spring Meeting
    04/14/2010 -- Women’s Division directors set the division’s 2011 budget, made 2009 Call to Prayer grants and allocated more than $191,972 for repairs and maintenance of United Methodist Women’s national mission institutions at their spring semi-annual meeting.

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