Volunteers needed for Grays Harbor Clean-Up!

Volunteers cleaning up the flood mud. Photo by Mickey Thurman, with permission. PDF DOWNLOADS: FLIER | TOOLS/EQUIPMENT LIST URGENT: Volunteers needed for flood clean-up! By Jim Truitt Homes, families...

Anatomy of a United Methodist disaster response

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...

Early Response Team Training is coming, Oct. 14!

Be Ready. Do Good. Repeat. When: October 14, 2017 Location: Bremerton UMC, 1150 Marine Drive, Bremerton, WA ERT Basic Class: 8:30am – 4:00pm ERT Refresher Course: (For previously certified ERT...

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...

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...

Commentary: Relief needs persist after typhoon

Commentary by April Grace G. Mercado June 12, 2014 | MANILA, Philippines (UMNS) More than six months after Typhoon Yolanda — known internationally as Typhoon Haiyan — killed...

Chaplain speaks on experience at Oso Mudslide

Capt. Justin Townley shares from his experience of seeing Christ in the ongoing recovery efforts at the 530 mudslide in Oso, Washington. Townley currently...

Washington Wildfires Update

By the Rev. Stanley J. Norman Firefighters are finally containing the massive Carlton Complex Fires in Eastern Washington (52% contained as of Thursday, July 24th)....

Fund Raiser for Rebuild: Up From the Ashes on May 6th at Bellevue First...

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...

SAVE THE DATE: Disaster Response Training, September 23 and 24 in Richland

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

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