The following is an update on the disaster relief activities as of Nov 06:

1. Cornerstone Conference-

• (a) Family Harvest Worship Center team leaves for Moss Point, Ms on November 14 thru November 19. Team of 6 will be involved in hanging sheet rock, carpentry work, tearing out damaged homes, and debris clean-up.
• (b)Redland PH students have elected to use their Christmas break to provide assistance in the Moss Point area.
• (c) Three churches have volunteered to participate in the “Adopt a Church” ministry...

2. Mid South Conference- Miracle Place Church-45 people remain in their shelter. Within the past month 100 families have been placed in a mobile home park. The church distribution center is providing supplies to approximately 600 families in the park and the immediate surrounding area

3. North Carolina Conference-

• (a) Ministries of Mercy (Kinston) has designated as priority a supply trailer for the Mid South conference to be used with the Louisiana Pastors Council as they begin to target specific parishes for “pile on” support. The Mid South DRUSA Coordinator-Rev Gordon Atwell will direct this truck to that specific area the PRC has chosen, and focus future support here and in New Orleans once plans for that area are ready.
• (b) Ahoskie PH has a team that will deploy this week to the Alpha Conference to continue work they have been doing on homes in the Pascagoula area.-their goal is to finish two homes that they have been working on the past two deployments.
• (c) Northwood Temple church youth are planning now to provide disaster relief work teams in the Summer of 2006-their plan is to be deployed to assist in the disaster area-both with disaster assistance but also with youth ministry /side walk ministry/music and drama ministry programs. They then will travel Youth Quest 2006.

4. Alpha Conference-

• (a) New Horizons Ministries church-four more homes are ready for sheet rock installation.
• (b) Construction support-(besides teams) for the disaster area around Moss Point/Pascagoula is in need of fix up supplies. The North Carolina Ahoskie team left 100 sheet of sheet rock for use on repairs and this is one item that will be in demand in the future.

5. Adopt Church Ministry- plans for the implementation of this ministry to have churches that have received damage to be adopted by other churches has been finalized. The initial project has the church in Lake City, LA-Mid South Conference that was damaged (Revival Center) to be adopted by Life Springs PH in the South Carolina Conference. This relationship is being worked now. It will require additional churches to be involved-just to support one damaged church. Contact “DRUSA.org” if there is a desire to participate in this assistance ministry.

6. Just a thought- Mary Marr of the Christian Emergency Network is calling upon Christians everywhere to recognize that the number of natural disasters occurring around the world are causing people to ask questions about God. Hence, she said..”This generation of Christians is here now ‘for such a time as this.’ The Apostle Paul taught young Timothy, ‘Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season..’(2 Timothy 4:2a). Well, if ever there was a season when this generation of the Body of Christ can share the Hope found in Jesus Christ, this is it.”

The hurricanes that we have seen this year in the Alpha Conference, Mississippi, Mid South, Texas and North Carolina…as well as other disasters like the tornadoes that hit Kentucky and Indiana today with 22 killed and o/a 200 injured…are a wake- up for us…the church… to be “Ready”….

“Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field” (Matthew 9:38)

End of Report..
jack kelley
drusa