Tag: Storms
Chainsaws an unlikely mission tool
![Chainsaws clean up in Iowa](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/UMCOR-Chainsaws-UMNews-Mike-DuBose.jpg)
Across the United Methodist connection, volunteers, with chainsaws at the ready, are cleaning things up and acting as a caring presence for Christ.
UMCOR has a year like no other
![UMCOR assisted in GLBR flooding in May.](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GLBR-Sanford-Scott-Marsh-June-16-2020-Doyal-1-scaled.jpg)
34 UMCOR grants totaling an estimated $783,700 were distributed in 2020. The Michigan Conference received $110,000 to address the flooding in the Great Lakes Bay Region on May 19.
Easter triumphs over virus and storms
![Battling both storms and COVID](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Relief-during-corona.jpg)
COVID-19 is making life hard around the world. And spring storms don’t take a COVID-break. At present, UMCOR calls for money not volunteers to keep all safe in disasters’ wake.