Tag: Wildfire
Your dollars go where disaster hits
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One disaster after another has filled the headlines in recent weeks. UMCOR and The Michigan Conference provide ways to restore the lives of neighbors near and far.
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.
Cash needed for wildfire buckets
![National Guard battles wild fire](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Fires-Sept-2020.jpg)
Gifts to the United Methodist Committee on Relief’s U.S. Disaster Response and Recovery Advance #901670 support efforts to aid homeowners in the path of wildfire blazing in California and Oregon.
Recovery from wildfires takes love
![California-Nevada Conference Disaster Response Coordinator Sonja Edd-Bennett (left) shows Revs. Jacey and Emily Pickens-Jones (right), pastors of Sonoma United Methodist Church, features of USB chargers from the conference being donated to the church's hospitality enter.](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CA-Fires-Nov-2019.png)
United Methodist responses to the annual wildfires in California include immediate help and longer-term efforts to tend to the needs of those who’ve been through traumatic events.
Pray and give for fire response
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Prayers are needed for residents and responders as the threat of high winds is expected to fan fire raging at 11 locations in California.
Churches cope with latest wildfires
![Man susrveying fire](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UMCOR-CA-fire.jpg)
In the middle of a desolate wasteland, United Methodists are there as Northern California wildfires continue to take their toll.
UMs help amidst wildfires
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United Methodist churches in California have opened their doors to shelter burned-out neighbors.