Emergency Response

In the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, flood water from the Tar River is well overflowing its southern bank. The river is cresting at about...

Jim Truitt provides a third update on his work supporting Long Term Recovery Groups in Texas. In this post, he shares how fear, distrust and encroaching apathy threaten response efforts that will take 8-10 years, even as disaster response leadership display commitment and creativity.

By Catherine G. Earl, MSW, US Disaster Response | United Methodist Committee on Relief Watch the video! See the results! Over 23,000 clean-up buckets distributed Over 65,000 hours of volunteer...

An Early Response Team heads back home while serving in Fairbanks, Alaska to fix houses affected by flooding of the Yukon River back in...

It's been 10 months since a rare EF 2 Tornado wreaked havoc in Port Orchard, Washington. Jim Truitt, Disaster Response Coordinator for the Greater NW Area, offers us a look back at the work that has been accomplished by numerous volunteers and intentional partnerships.

Since yesterday we have been watching the devastating images of destruction in Moore, Oklahoma. In the last two days, dozens of tornadoes tore through five...

By Rosalee Mohney & Jim Truitt As this is being written, the final two homes of the Rebuild: Up from the Ashes project are being...

By Jesse N. Love with Rosalee Mohney and Jim Truitt Tacoma, Wash. - On a snowy Sunday morning, Mason United Methodist Church in Tacoma opened...

By Rosalee Mohney, Seattle District Co-Lay Leader/Wildfires UMVIM Coordinator You, your friends, your neighbors, and all your cousins are invited to this special and exciting event...

By Marilyn S. Reid | Photos by GBGM, et. al. The world is in need of healing. People in our own neighborhoods and community (and...