SAVE THE DATES!!  Fun for the whole family! Food, great information, some giveaways! Free Disaster Response Workshop Friday and Saturday, Apr 17-18, 2015, Bethel PCA, 17990 Midway Rd, Dallas, TX 75287. Topics to be covered:

• Equipping your church to respond to disasters
• HAM radio and social media during disasters
• Preparing your family for disasters
• Building Sheds of Hope
• Assembling your 72 hr family kit
• Introduction to CERT
• Teaching children to prepare for disasters through interactive activities
• Responding to disasters

REGISTER NOW!! Click here to register for the free BBQ dinner and presentations. Child care upon request.

Contact Rick Lenz at rlenz@pcanet.org or 817-690-8107 for more information

MNA Disaster Response is conducting a special Care and Comfort training event at Grace PCA, Dalton, GA, on Oct 17, 2014. It is intended for all who are called to serve Christ through mercy ministry (that’s all of us!).  This one-day event will provide training on how to best compassionately and appropriately share the love and hope of Jesus Christ in a tempest-tossed world. Go to http://www.pcamna.org and click on Disaster Response to learn how you can be part of this great opportunity!

We are building a national MNA disaster response warehouse in Dalton, GA, for pre-positioning equipment and supplies, training and housing volunteers, and generally building our capability to respond.  We can start the building but need your help to complete the structure and outfit it with equipment, shelving, furniture, etc.  Go to the MNA Disaster Response website at http://www.pcamna.org to donate. Do it today!

We’re still building Sheds of Hope in Moore, OK until the end of August 2014. Currently we have about 180 sheds built. Help us get to 200 sheds built for tornado victims and for God’s glory.

We are still working in the Moore/OKC area building Sheds of Hope. We have built over 170 sheds and have at least 7 partially built sheds in N TX!  We will be building through August 2014 when we transition to follow up with shed recipients. VOLUNTEER today to help build sheds!!  We would really like to train church teams how to build the sheds and get a commitment from them to build a couple sheds within the first week following a disaster. If we can do that, we could have sheds on the ground when the sheds are most urgently needed. Interested?  Contact me today!

Several devastating tornadoes hit OK including an EF-5 tornado in Moore in May.  Over 5,000 homes were destroyed as well as schools, a hospital, and many businesses. The PCA churches in OK and the RUF Campus Ministers are leading the response effort. Together with MNA, they have hired a coordinator and are looking for places to house volunteers.  In addition to debris cleanup and counseling, they will be offering Sheds of Hope to those affected to store whatever they were able to salvage or accumulate since the disaster.  Check it out on Facebook at Sheds of Hope – Oklahoma Tornado Relief or at http://www.shedsofhope.com How can you help? Pray, give, go!  Pray for God’s hand in the response. Donate cash and volunteer at http://www.pcamna.org. Please no non-cash donations unless specifically requested.