It is the responsibility of the individual church to reach out to the community surrounding a church before, during, and after a disaster event as well as addressing disaster impacts to the church buildings, staff, and congregation.  This would include shelter, feeding, and assisting victims with their clean up and recovery, housing or support of responding Methodist disaster teams, and addressing long term effects of disaster such as depression, increased drug use, and suicide via the Disaster Care Ministry. 

Pastor (makes 1 call): The local pastor determines the damage to his/her family and home, church facilities, church staff and their homes, and community surrounding the church.  Then he makes a call to the District Superintendent  (___-___-________) to report the above disaster conditions.  This should be completed within 12 hours of the occurrence of the disaster.

 District Superintendent (makes 2 calls):  The District Superintendent will receive the information with the name and a return phone number of the pastor.  Then he will call the Bishop (678-533-1360-office) or (___-___-_____ -cell phone) and his District Disaster Coordinator (___________________ _____________________   ___-___-_____) and relay the information to both. This should be completed within 12 hours of the occurrence of the disaster.  

 Bishop (makes 1 call):  The Bishop will call the Director or Assistant Directory of Connectional Ministries (Mike Selleck 678-533-1441-office or ___-___-_____-cell or Shari Rates 678-533-1444-office or ___-___-_____-cell) and relate the information.       

 Connectional Ministries (makes 1 call): Mike or Shari will call the Conference Disaster Chair (Mike Yoder 404-289-5051-office or 404-579-2137 - cell.

Conference Disaster Chair (makes 4 or more calls):  

The Conference Disaster Coordinator may call or coordinate with other disaster agencies such as the local chapter of the American Red Cross, GEMA, GaVOAD, and UMVIM, as needed.

Chair of Assessment Team calls as many teams as needed to quickly assess the damage and communicates to the Conference Disaster Chair, so that the type and number of disaster response teams (chain saw, equipment, debris, tarp) and other type teams can be determined to  respond to the disaster.

Conference Disaster Coordinator picks a spot for a Command Post and selects as many helpers as needed to fill the needs of the Command Post and the disaster area.