Susquehanna Conference Disaster Response

  There are opportunities to financially support tornado recovery efforts as well as send volunteers to the Kentucky and Tennessee-Western Kentucky Annual Conferences. Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference Long Term Recovery efforts are being planned through the Fall of 2022 and volunteer teams that are interested in helping should register their interest at  VOLUNTEER FORM .  If you want to send supplies, contact them at  SENDING SUPPLIES FORM .  Financial giving can be accomplished by clicking  Donate to Disaster Response Fund  or, mailing a check to Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference, PO Box 440132, Nashville, TN 37244. (Please note Disaster Response in the memo line.) Kentucky Conference Currently, the Kentucky Annual Conference is only accepting teams that are ERT led, with a ratio of 1:1 (1 ERT trained* to 1 non-ERT).  When long term recovery efforts begin, more information will be shared.  Financial giving can be accomplished by mai...

  By Douglas Hoy, Disaster Response Coordinator “If you walked by a house fully engulfed in flames and you could hear people screaming, would you keep walking? If a car crashed in front of you, would you drive by it? If a child was about to cross a busy street without looking, would you stay quiet? Well, it’s not a fire, or a crash, or a busy street, but people ARE dying and our health-care workers are drowning, and they are seeing things they will never forget….” These words were shared by a friend on social media a few months ago. Like many of us, she has been frustrated with the pandemic, a lack of concern for those who are suffering, and the declining support for the decision-makers attempting to guide us.  My friend went on to share that “we have the power to change the outcome, to lessen the burden. We can be part of the solution.”  As I read her post, my thoughts turned to a cold day in October when I met with some residents of Knoxville (Williamsport District). Th...