UMCOR: Hurricane Relief

August 29, 2005

UMCOR: Hurricane Relief

Hurricane Katrina has made landfall on the Gulf Coast as a strong category 4 hurricane (150 mph). This storm is extremely dangerous, especially threatening coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. It appears that New Orleans will be spared a direct hit, however the city's levees are not designed to protect it from hurricanes higher than category 3. Destruction in that below-sea-level city could be catastrophic. Please lift up in prayer the thousands of people who will be affected by this powerful hurricane.

The 2005 Atlantic storm season has broken storm history records with its early activity. New storms are piling on top of long-term needs that exist not only in Florida and Alabama but in many other states. Your contributions to UMCOR Advance #982523, Hurricanes 2005 Global, will help people in the U.S. and Caribbean affected by Hurricane Dennis, as well as those who will be impacted by future storms in this already intense hurricane season.

Donations to the United Methodist Committee on Relief's (UMCOR) Hurricanes Global (Advance #982523) response can be made online through UMC.org's secure server.

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Your tax-deductible gift may be placed in United Methodist church offering plates or sent directly to: UMCOR, PO Box 9068, New York, NY 10087-9068. Checks should be made out to: UMCOR. Please list in the memo area of your check "UMCOR Advance #982523, Hurricanes 2005 Global". Donations are also being taken by phone at 1-800-554-8583.

Flood Buckets

UMCOR urges individuals and organizations to help replenish supplies of flood buckets. The buckets include such items as sponges, brushes, trash bags and various types of cleaning materials. Learn how to create a flood bucket online. (http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/print/kits/) Completed flood buckets --and $1.50 per bucket to cover reshipping-- should be sent to UMCOR Sager Brown, 101 Sager Brown Rd., Baldwin, LA 70514.

UMCOR is also requesting donations for its Material Resource Ministry, Advance #901440 for cleaning supplies that the staff and volunteers at the Sager Brown Depot will use to assemble flood buckets.

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