[XRdsRev]

If anyone has some information on donating food, clothing etc. to local people or organizations in the Hurricane impact area, please post. I am here in New Jersey and would like to send some items and I know many of my neighbors would like to do the same.

Best wishes for all of you who have suffered in this natural disaster.

[Trust but Verify]

You need to donate money. The logistics of millions of people sending 'things' is only going to contribute to more problems.

[r9etb]

If anyone has some information on donating food, clothing etc. to local people or organizations in the Hurricane impact area, please post.

Probably the best bet for immediate aid is to send money (to whomever), so that they can get exactly what they need ASAP. Clothing will definitely be needed later, but the folks on the ground can use money right now.

[Peach]

My neighbor and I bought 20 cases of water yesterday and we're going through our clothes, sheets, towels, etc. and will take them to the local Salvation Army. They are organizing now.

You can call them and see what they suggest. We all have to help.

[CajunConservative]

"""""If anyone has some information on donating food, clothing etc. to local people or organizations in the Hurricane impact area, please post. I am here in New Jersey and would like to send some items and I know many of my neighbors would like to do the same.

Best wishes for all of you who have suffered in this natural disaster."""""


This is for the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief teams. They are the one's who the Red Cross uses to do the actual work. 100% of the funds donated to disaster relief will be used for disaster relief.

http://www.namb.net/

Disaster Relief Update

August 29, 2005

“Yes, you will be enriched so that you can give even more generously. And when we take your gifts to those who need them, they will break out in thanksgiving to God" (2 Cor. 9:11, NIV).

Hurricane Katrina


Hurricane Katrina made landfall just east of New Orleans at approximately 6 a.m. CDT today as a Category 4 storm. Emergency response officials are predicting it could be one of the most damaging storms in United States history.

American Red Cross has requested that Southern Baptists prepare 300,000 meals a day for 90 days, which could go as high as half a million meals a day.

Mobile kitchens, shower units, clean-up and recovery units, and communication units from more than 20 states have been activated to staging sites in Memphis, Tenn., and Marshall, Tex.

Jim Burton, director of Volunteer Mobilization for NAMB, reported, "We're working right now to determine where our units will set up in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. We'll be able to assign units on Tuesday, and most should be in place and ready to serve hot meals by Wednesday."

Much of the feeding will be shelter feeding and line feeding, not mobile feeding.

Units and teams from the following conventions have been activated: Northwest, Tennessee, Texas Baptist Men, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama, California, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Noth Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia Baptist Mission Board. Other states are on standby.

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Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Donations

If you would like to make a financial contribution to the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Fund, make checks payable to the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and mail to: NAMB, P.O. Box 116543, Atlanta, GA 30368-6543. To make a donation online, Click Here.

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National Leadership

Don Gann is the incident commander for the incident command team. The site of the command post is tentatively FBC McComb in McComb, Mississippi, just north of the Louisiana line, but this has not been confirmed due to possible storm damage to the church. Team members include David Abernathy (operations), Donald Kimbell (public information officer), Eddie Blackmon (feeding coordinator), Mike Morgan (administration), John Dillender, Carl Russell, Kevin Kite, and Harold Moore.

Terry Henderson is the national disaster relief director, thenderson@namb.net; 1 800 462-8657, ext. 6133.

Mickey Caison is the NAMB DOC manager.

Gerald Peters is the operations officer at the NAMB DOC.

Fred Kinsey is the SBC liaison at ARC NHQ in Washington, D.C.

Randy Creamer is the SBC member of a recently formed ARC mass care coordination group convening at ARC NHQ in Washington, D.C. The group is composed of NGO representatives from Adventist Community Services, America's Second Harvest, Salvation Army, Southern Baptist Convention/NAMB, American Humane Society, Church World Service, and labor representation.

Harold Johnson is SBC liaison at ARC HQ in Baton Rouge, La.

Mike Overcash is SBC liaison at TSA HQ in Jackson, Miss.

To contact the Disaster Operations Center, call 1 800 462-8657, ext. 6133 or e-mail dr_offsite@namb.net.

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Officials ask that people who want to help not head to affected areas unless directed by an agency. Cash donations are urged, not goods. These agencies are among many that need cash to help storm victims:

• American Red Cross: The fastest way to contribute to the agency's Disaster Relief Fund is to visit www.redcrosshelps.org or call (800) HELP NOW (435-7669) for English, (800) 257-7575 for Spanish. For information on how to help or donate blood in the Charlotte area, call (704) 378-4641.

• Operation Blessing, (800) 436-6348.

• America's Second Harvest, (800) 344-8070.

• Adventist Community Services, (800) 381-7171.

• Catholic Charities, USA, (703) 549-1390.

• Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, (800) 848-5818.

• Church World Service, (800) 297-1516.

• Convoy of Hope, (417) 823-8998.

• Lutheran Disaster Response, (800) 638-3522.

• Mennonite Disaster Service, (717) 859-2210.

• Nazarene Disaster Response, (888) 256-5886.

• Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, (800) 872-3283.

• Salvation Army, (800) SAL-ARMY (725-2769).

• United Methodist Committee on Relief, (800) 554-8583.

[Maigrey]

Contact your local Salvation Army and see if they have a collection site locally for this situation.

Here, the SA has 4 53ft trailers at a local Wal-Mart to collect needed material donations to send down there this week.