Wildfire Update: Pastors provide spiritual support for evacuees, responders
"Unless you have a real reason to go into the area, please stay away. The air quality is unhealthy and there are an unusually...
Step Up to the Plate! Early Response Team “Spring Training” is COMING!
By Kathy Bryson
Be a part of the disaster response community and help those in need. The PNWUMC Volunteers in Mission team is hosting the...
New video highlights UMCOR Sunday and the relief work of the UMC
One of six churchwide Special Sundays with offerings of The United Methodist Church, UMCOR Sunday calls United Methodists to share the goodness of life...
Volunteers needed: ERTs, UMVIM team-up for pastor’s house fire recovery
By Kathy Bryson
The Pacific Northwest UMC Early Response Team and United Methodist Volunteer in Mission (UMVIM) members are teaming up August 16-21, 2017 to...
On the ground in Texas: “The response to this disaster is huge”
Jim Truitt, UMVIM Disaster Response Coordinator for the PNW Conference, is on the ground in Texas assisting FEMA in the formation of a Long Term Recovery Taskforce for Hurricane Harvey. Working 12 hour days among thousands of people has given him an appreciation for the immensity of the response and the importance of attending to the work in front of him in a focused way.
How have ERTs fulfilled its mission of service in 2017?
By Kathy Bryson
For the PNW Early Response Team program, 2017 was a year kaf firsts. We hosted our first annual weekend “Spring Training” at...
Mudslide Update: Our impact, dollars at work for Oso relief
View of the hill side that gave way near SR 530. A hillside in the Snohomish County community of Oso at SR...
Wildfire Update: 180 homes burned, financial support needed
An air tanker plane dropping fire retardant over the advancing Chelan Butte wildfire (part of the Chelan Complex fire) in Chelan, Wash. Photo courtesy...
PNW Early Response Team’s chainsaw unit clears burnt trees for homes, creates safety zone
(Left to right) Larry Johnson, Steve Meacham, Woody Russell, and Dana Bryson stand above Lake Chelan on a steep hillside clearing for a home...
Musings: Meeting Needs in the Midst of Disaster
Last summer, Aaron Pazan visited the Philippines for the Global Young People’s Convocation and Legislative Assembly serving as a young adult representative for the Western...
