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    Columbia Union Conference Adventist Community Services is coordinating disaster response efforts for recent tornadoes and flooding across several southern and midwestern states. At this time, financial support is most needed as local volunteers are handling immediate response activities. Adventist Community Services Disaster Response provides trained leadership and coordinates the efforts of volunteers from affiliated conferences to assist local authorities and agencies. Monetary donations should be sent to the listed address or marked for disaster relief in local church offerings.

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    Newsletter regarding help for the recent tornados in the Southern area.

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    Columbia Union Conference Adventist Community Services is coordinating disaster response efforts for recent tornadoes and flooding across several southern and midwestern states. At this time, financial support is most needed as local volunteers are handling immediate response activities. Adventist Community Services Disaster Response provides trained leadership and coordinates the efforts of volunteers from affiliated conferences to assist local authorities and agencies. Monetary donations should be sent to the listed address or marked for disaster relief in local church offerings.

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    Newsletter Columbia Union 2011 May 03 Tornadoes&amp Flooding 00

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    Columbia Union Conference Adventist Community Services Disaster Response

    DISASTER NEWS
    Date: 4 May 2011 Tornado and Flood Report #1 Vol: 04 Nbr: 04

    DISASTER STRIKES US AND provide trained and experienced dona-


    OUR NEIGHBORS. Everyone is tions management leadership and gen-
    already aware of the tornadoes that eral volunteers. ACS DR does not
    ripped through Alabama, Arkansas, train for debris clean-up, muck-out,
    Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. and other activities that have increased
    And many towns in the states along safety and health risks. All groups,
    the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and especially school and youth groups,
    many smaller associated rivers, have should work with their conference
    been evacuated. Many of these towns ACS DR leadership before sending
    have already been flooded. Damage anyone into the disaster areas. There
    in all of these areas is very extensive. are age restrictions regarding certain
    activities.
    During the frequent national Adventist
    Community Services Disaster Re- All major disaster response organiza-
    sponse (ACS DR) tele-conferences, tions and agencies promote the con-
    the ACS DR conference coordinators cept that only “affiliated” volunteers
    in the affected areas are working with plan to respond. Our members are
    the local, state, and federal authorities asked to affiliate with ACS DR, and
    as warehouses and distribution centers become trained and credentialed be-
    are set up. fore entering a disaster area.

    At this time, the current need is for To provide the most needed support
    financial support. As the various op- at this time (financial support),
    erations get underway, the need for please send your donation to:
    volunteers from outside the affected
    states will likely increase. However, Adventist Community Services
    at this time, adequate volunteers from 12501 Old Columbia Pike
    within the affected conferences are Silver Spring, MD 20904
    able to handle the ACS DR response
    activities. Or
    Mark your local offering envelope for
    The primary function of ACS DR is to NAD ACS DR.

    Disaster News is published by Bob Mitchell, Columbia Union ACS DR Coordinator. Please send news items and
    comments to bmitchell_acsdr@earthlink.net. Page 1

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