Join Us In Providing Disaster Relief to NW Atlanta

September 22, 2009

I know that many of you have been reaching out and being ‘Jesus With A Shop-Vac’ (previous post) over the last 48 hours. I believe God has provided the right tools now for us to continue to love our neighbors in some unbelievable ways!

I am excited to announce that we will be hosting Samaritan’s Purse Disaster Relief Team here at West Ridge Church beginning tomorrow. They will be bringing a fifty-three foot trailer and four other trailers full of tools and gear to help us serve those from our community cleaning up from the flood.

We will be publishing a designated phone line and Samaritan’s Purse will do intake for every need that comes in. They will canvass some of the hardest hit areas beginning tomorrow afternoon. They will assess every project before volunteers go out, and will help us organize volunteers from the community into teams and send them out. We hope to have that phone line available tomorrow, and I will post it here. We will be able to activate volunteer teams as early as Thursday and will be going full tilt by Friday.

Samaritan’s Purse believes that this will be a three week operation. This is all about them coming alongside the local church and community. There will be tons of volunteer opportunities available over the next three weeks. Any time you can donate during the day over the next three weeks will be extremely valuable. Anyone from the NW Atlanta community is welcome to join us in using the resources of Samaritan’s Purse to help serve their neighbors.
Several other Engage Atlanta Churches are also planning to help, and many folks from the Community Makeover have contacted me. I will proclaim those Kingdom-minded Pastors and Churches as they come on line.

I also called an organization called Gleaning for the World and they are sending 3500 blankets, 300 pairs of shoes and 4 pallets of water.

We will distribute this truck load and other donations until they are gone.

Gleaning for the World can also provide more water, shoes, soup and muscle milk if we need it. The charges are fairly minimal to fill a trailer on the back of an eighteen wheeler, but you also have to pay for the freight. That gets to be a bit more, but if someone (or organization) would like to bring in more aid in the community we can have trucks here in a day.

I’ll have post more information here as it comes available.

Everyone Belongs,

Paul

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