Emergency Response

By Ronda Cordill Way 1. Bringing Kits to Annual Conference Beginning on Wednesday, June 14 there will be a donation station in front of the Red...

Kathy Bryson will serve as the new coordinator for Early Response Teams. PNW Disaster Response: Kathy Bryson to serve as ERT coordinator By Jim Truitt | Photo...

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...

What are Conference budgets? How can I support mission? What resources are available from The PNW Conference that can help our church treasurers? Download...

By Phileas Jusu | FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (UMNS) Religious leaders hope that providing emotional and social support for communities across Sierra Leone will help counter the...

Views from disaster areas in the PNW: In 2014, the mudslides in Oso (March) and the Carlton Complex wildfire (July) devastated local communities and...

Participants in the November Pacific Northwest laity immersion trip to visit Okanogan County drive through a metal scrap yard/pile to show how much damaged...

By Rosalee Mohney | Photos by Andy O'Donnell, Jesse N. Love, et. al. Now fully-funded, volunteers are needed to help rebuild remaining homes for victims...

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 Jim Truitt The wildfires in eastern Washington are finally either out or fully contained. State and Federal assessors are in the field this week...