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Disaster response workcamps and rebuilding projects, humanitarian mission trips, the annual Brethren Disaster Relief Auction, food, blanket and clothing drives for stricken areas and other outreach to disaster victims locally, nationally and internationally, are some of the ways in which we strive to fulfill our mission to "Serve and promote peace and justice in our neighborhoods and around the world"

Upcoming Disaster Response Workcamps:

August 7-16 Haiti Disaster Response Workcamp. Call the Church Office at 717-367-1000 to sign up or for more information.

Learn more about Brethren Disaster Ministries and how you can get involved

OTHER DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS AND OPPORTUNITIES:

Church World Service Kits requested

Church World Service, longtime disaster relief partner of the Church of the Brethren, is prepared to fulfill requests from partners for CWS Emergency Blankets, CWS Baby Kits, Hygiene Kits and Clean-Up Buckets as needs arise.  Information on kit contents and directions on how to assemble can be found at

http://www.churchworldservice.org/kits/.

Emergency Disaster Fund accepting cash donations

The work of Brethren Disaster Ministries is supported by gifts to the Emergency Disaster Fund.  To donate by mail, make your check payable to Emergency Disaster Fund, and send it to Church of the Brethren, 1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120.  To donate online, go to https://secure.brethren.org/donation/index.php?catid=9

READ ABOUT PREVIOUS DISASTER RESPONSE WORKCAMPS AND PROJECTS

February, 2008
Pearl River, Louisiana     

 


 

 

 

 


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Since 2005, teams from the Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren have regularly travelled to communities ravaged by Hurricane Katrina to aid in rebuilding and recovery projects. For information on upcoming mission trips to the Gulf Coast region, contact Lucy Maghan or George Snavely.

The following is a short statement from the Disaster Relief Response website for the Church of the Brethren (www.brethrendisasterresponse.org):

"Chalmette is in St. Bernard Parish, where Katrina caused the levee failures that inundated homes throughout the parish with 6-20 feet of water for over 2 weeks. Over 200 parish residents lost their lives, and 100% percent of the homes were officially declared "uninhabitable." Nearly 50% of the residents were senior citizens."