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There are many ways to volunteer. You can
form a church team or join that team whether it be sheltering or
feeding or listening to victims or a disaster team or an ERT, or
serving as your church disaster coordinator. With the
ongoing drought in North Georgia. We may be eventually be
needed to staff POD's (points of distribution) and hand out
water to those in the local community.
There is lot of training available with in the
January to April period. You can look under
"Training" for more information about being an
effective team member.
This has been the year for lots of opportunities
for service with flooding in the Missouri, Ohio, Mississippi
River Valleys (Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois),
hurricane flooding in Central Florida, and wind, storm surge,
and flooding damage along the Louisiana and Texas coasts as well
as inland.
Volunteers make such an
impact on the people whom they serve, and they, in turn, are
impacted by the hope and perseverance shown by those who have
survived disaster. Read Volunteer
Stories from people who have
already served. Would you like to share your story? Email
us. We definitely would like to add more stories.
Having trouble finding a week or two to
volunteer in a disaster area or shoveling away eight inches of
dried mud on carpet is not your idea of a good time in New
Orleans? Learn about Other
Volunteer Opportunities that
can be done without leaving your community.
Many of our teams respond to Americus, Florida, Mississippi,
or Louisiana however we don't know when they are going and
whether they can take a few others. There are individuals
at churches that would like to build teams but would like to
start by temporarily joining another team to get their feet on
the ground. Please email
us with the dates, spaces available, and who to contact so
that we can add to the work trip page in this section and publish your
trip. There is still so much to do along the Gulf
coast!
Don't leave home without your lime
green disaster
T-shirts!
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North
Georgia Conference Disaster Response Ministry