Hurricane Sandy: The Church Responds

On Oct. 29-30, 2012, Hurricane Sandy's powerful gusts and storm surges caused once-in-a-generation flooding in coastal communities of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, leaving more than eight million people - including a large swath of Manhattan - in the dark.

Read the latest news about the Church's commitment to long-term recovery efforts below. Donate to the cause at UMCOR's website: Hurricanes 2012, Advance number 3021787. You can also text the word RESPONSE to 80888 to give an immediate $10 donation.
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News stories

• A message on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy
• Anatomy of a United Methodist disaster response
• Year 1: Sandy recovery — Mission teams needed
• Year 1: Sandy recovery — ‘Love Methodist volunteers’
• Year 1: Sandy recovery — Management the key
• Year 1: Sandy recovery — Volunteers a ‘lifeline’
• Year 1: Sandy recovery — Different needs everywhere
• Year 1: Sandy recovery — The work of many hands
• United Methodists invest in Sandy recovery
• NY “Surviving Sandy” Groups Help Heal Invisible Scars
• Hurricane Sandy Relief: Volunteers Come From Near and Far
• More teams needed for Sandy recovery in Northeast U.S.
• Surviving Sandy in Cuba
• Sandy giving now at $6.1 million; teams needed
• UMCOR Hurricane Sandy relief receives boost
• Sandy’s toll: Worse than you think
• Long Islanders get Sandy relief
• United Methodists join in Staten Island relief
• After Sandy, Maryland town quietly suffers
• New Jersey United Methodists tackling the long-term after Sandy
• ‘They were beyond human’
• Thousands of Sandy survivors know church cares
• NY Mets serve up lunch at United Methodist mission
• NYAC Bishop McLee Visits Staten Island
• Hugo survivors join Sandy relief efforts
• N.J. church sign points way to storm relief
• United Methodists, Mormons, Muslims team up for Sandy relief effort
• N.J. now open to early response teams
• Neighbors, near and far
• Jellyfish add note of levity to destruction of Sandy
• Neighbors help neighbors in New York City
• Sandy survivor: ‘It’s unfathomable’
• Give money, not stuff, to Hurricane Sandy survivors
• Stuffing the bus for Staten Island
• Cleanup Post-Sandy Can Seem Like ‘Mission Impossible’
• Powerless Far Rockaway Mission Continues to Serve
• Volunteers: The lifeblood of storm response
• Help as Northeast braces for another storm
• N.Y. United Methodists prepare to send out volunteers on Staten Island and Long Island
• Stunned N.J. towns reach for hope
• How people are helping in the wake of Sandy
• Pastor, now homeless, feeds drenched community through his Bay Head, N.J., church
• Cleaning Buckets Needed
• World Methodist Council offers prayers for those in Sandy’s wake, urges contributions to help
• Picking up the Pieces: Comfort, Demo, Food and Water
• Care for Evacuees, Disaster Personnel
• Storm leaves several N.J. parsonages flooded
• The splintering effects of a hurricane
• Parsonage Becomes Shelter; Gas Woes May Slow Help
• Past Disasters Worsen Post-Hurricane Trauma

Other News Headlines

• Baltimore-Washington Conference to take special offering for disaster relief
• Methodist Church sends semitruck of cleaning supplies to NY
• Methodist Church in Britain makes grant to victims of Hurricane Sandy
• Gales Ferry event helps homeless with haircuts, food, care

Resources

• How to make cleaning buckets
• Bulletin inserts
• Photos: Hurricane Sandy Response
• Photos: Bay Head, New Jersey
• Photos: Staten Island recovery work
• Worship Resources
• UMC Connections
• UMCOR
• Churches Dealing with Disaster

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