How Can We Help our Brothers and Sisters?
The Appalachian District is still working out the details but our District Superintendent, Rev. Lori Beth Huffman, is making Appalachian District Office a staging area to get supplies to most devastated areas.
Lord, help us be the church in this season and at this moment for those most in need!
- We need Truck Drivers and Folks with Trailers to deliver the materials to the District Office. Reach out to Church office to get more details about this.
- We can collect the mentioned items in the need list.
- The Wesley building here at Fair View is a drop off point for any items you would like to donate. If you come by the church during office hours you can also drop off items in the workroom. This are the first step of many that we will be engaging in over the next weeks, months and possibly years to help our mountain brothers and sisters through this disaster. We also will be partnering with some of sister churches in Avery and Watauga County to reach specific needs. Once we know those needs, we will add them to the listed needs. I thank you all for you passionate outpour of generosity in face of such devastation.
- You can Donate to Disaster Relief Fund
- Click Here to Donate
- You can join in our Conference Wide Offering, October 6th.
- you can drop your monetary donation by the church office during office hours (Mon-Fri. 9-2pm)
- Early Response Team Training:
Folks have asked about how they can help – we are not ready for teams yet but we will – so please keep this desire to help so that when we are ready to send teams, you can make time to go. For those who do want to be part of an Early Response Team, we require training first. This is dangerous work and we need trained volunteers at this first level of response. Here are details as they are available. Other trainings are being planned so the ask is to sign up if you are interested and the Missions Response Team will be in touch with you with training options.
Early Response Team Training: We are planning a “Just-in-Time” Early Response Team (ERT) Training in the Asheville area on Monday, October 7. Volunteers must have ERT training to assist in recovery efforts. Please help spread the word to interested churches and individuals. Register here: ERTTraining-InitialSign-Up - We can Pray
Lord, help us be the church in this season and at this moment for those most in need!
Listed needs
- Flood Buckets (click this link to a video of items and how to pack them) https://umcmission.org/umcor-cleaning-kit/
- Propane cans
- Stove top cookers or table top grills
- Charcoal
- Batteries – AA, AAA especially
- Children’s resources
- coloring books, activities, kid friendly snacks
Updated Reports from the DS (As of 10/9/24)
- Collection Opportunities- Because of everyone’s generosity from within and beyond North Carolina, we are calling for a weeklong Donation Sabbath because ALL of our distribution centers are beyond full of supplies to give away. Some of our distribution centers are moving away from giving out commodities and focusing just on Flood Buckets. We will do the same. The Appalachian District is no longer receiving water, food, diapers, etc at this time. If you have already gathered items, then go ahead and bring them, we will receive them this week. But please, no new collections of these items on your end. The only items we will be continuing to gather in the future are limited to the following:
-Flood Buckets
-Propane cans
-Stove top cookers or table top grills
-Charcoal
-Batteries
- Children’s resources (coloring books, activities, kid friendly snacks)
SPECIAL ITEMS: (For Rev. Ken Anderson – Disaster Response Coordinator in Watauga County)
- Honda 2000 Generator
Hands on Mission for Hurricane Helene Relief
UPDATE
We gathered with the local United Methodist Churches in the Mooresville Missional network, along with other missional networks in Iredell County to put together flood buckets for the people of Western North Carolina Mountains. We had a specific task of putting together as many as we could to meet the need of 500 buckets by yesterday, Tuesday 10/8, needed in Spruce Pine community. With all hands on deck we were able to put together 110 completed buckets and sent 90 home with a few missing items to complete to make the goal of 200 from our local area to help meet that need.
I am please to announce that with all were brought back in and we delivered on our goal of 200 buckets from the Mooresville and surrounding areas. Thank you to all that came out to serve and those who donated generously to make it happen.
I am please to announce that with all were brought back in and we delivered on our goal of 200 buckets from the Mooresville and surrounding areas. Thank you to all that came out to serve and those who donated generously to make it happen.
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