{"id":5561,"date":"2013-10-28T21:05:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T04:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/?p=5561"},"modified":"2013-10-28T21:06:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T04:06:01","slug":"anatomy-of-a-united-methodist-disaster-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/anatomy-of-a-united-methodist-disaster-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a United Methodist disaster response"},"content":{"rendered":"

A United Methodist volunteer team from the California-Pacific Conference prepares to work on a home damaged by Hurricane Sandy in Long Beach, N.Y., a part of Long Island. The home is elevated on concrete pilings to help avoid future flooding, requiring the team to climb a ladder to the living space.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Year 1: Sandy recovery \u2014 Different needs everywhere<\/h3>\n

From Santiago, Cuba, to Criswell, Md., to Far Rockaway, Queens, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Long Island and the Jersey shore, the recovery efforts began. The survivors shared common threads of need: immediate relief, assessment, repair, rebuilding and renewal from the emotional and spiritual toll.Learn what United Methodists did<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Year 1: Sandy recovery \u2014 Management the key<\/h3>\n

A rebuild averages four to five months\u00a0and could take up to a year, but The United Methodist Church has become well known for disaster case management. \u201cUMCOR is the gold standard,\u201d said Bobbie Ridgely, director of A Future with Hope, Greater New Jersey\u2019s Sandy relief organization.\u00a0Read about how it works<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Year 1: Sandy recovery \u2014 Volunteers a lifeline<\/h3>\n

\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for them (the volunteers), believe me, it wouldn\u2019t be the same,\u201d said Nancy Gibson, who welcomed United Methodist volunteer teams from Tennessee, Ohio, Virginia and Alabama.\u00a0\u201cA lot of people, even in this block here, still aren\u2019t finished.\u201d\u00a0Learn about ways in which the church made a difference<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Year 1: Sandy recovery \u2014 \u2018Love Methodist volunteers\u2019<\/h3>\n

Volunteers are the backbone of United Methodist disaster response and nobody knows that better than the people who set up the work opportunities. \u201cI love my Methodist volunteers,\u201d declared Gillian Prince, who works in the New York Conference\u2019s Brooklyn relief office. \u201cThey are the best\u2026they come in ready and willing to work.\u201d\u00a0Meet some of those volunteers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Year 1: Sandy recovery \u2014 Mission teams needed<\/h3>\n

Since many volunteer in mission teams plan six months in advance, the advertisement and recruitment for spring and summer of 2014 is crucial right now, says UMCOR\u2019s disaster relief coordinator for the U.S. Recovery from Sandy is expected to take years, so relief coordinators have to keep Sandy on the front-burner for a long time.\u00a0Volunteers a critical need<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A United Methodist volunteer team from the California-Pacific Conference prepares to work on a home damaged by Hurricane Sandy in Long Beach, N.Y., a part of Long Island. The home is elevated on concrete pilings to help avoid future flooding, requiring the team to climb a ladder to the living space. Year 1: Sandy recovery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":5562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[125,32,258,3],"tags":[243,167,109,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-5561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-emergency-response","8":"category-news","9":"category-umvim-2","10":"category-umns","11":"tag-disaster-response","12":"tag-hurricane-sandy","13":"tag-umcor","14":"tag-umvim"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/UMVIM-SANDY.jpg?fit=700%2C357&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-1rH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5566,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions\/5566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}