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Regional Mission

DISASTER ASSISTANCE
Presbyterians form an important network, providing spiritual, physical, and psychological care to those most in need. Members of the Presbyterian Disaster Action Team (PDAT) support congregations and presbyteries before, during, and after disasters strike. This team of experienced volunteers, skilled in pastoral care, organization, and volunteer management, enables the PDAT to respond quickly to multiple crisis situations. The PDAT coordinates opportunities for PCPC volunteer teams to offer hands-on help in the form of clean up, surveys of the community, and repair work as well as financial donations and donations of food and supplies.

Click here to down load PCPC’s 2009 Disaster Preparedness Brochure.

Click here to see a list of items you may need to pack incase of a disaster.

EXAMPLES OF DISASTERS

Hurricanes 2004
PCPC members made nine mission trips to provide assistance.

Tsunami 2004
PCPC members donated, packed and shipped over 25 large boxes of baby kits, school kits, clean-up kits and hygienc kits for to the many areas around the Indian Ocean that were impacted by this tremendously destructive tsunami.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005
PCPC adopted the forty-five member Gautier Presbyterian Church of Gautier, Mississippi which suffered 4 feet of flood damage. PCPC members prayed and corresponded with all forty-five Gautier members for over a year. Gautier Presbyterian partnered with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) to have tents set up on their property that housed an average of 80-120 volunteers a week for over 18 months. PCPC joined five different week-long mission teams during the 18 months of recovery. We also adopted an 80 year old woman and worked with her family to repair and furnish her home in addition to donating $10,000 for this family to refurnish the home.

One of the members of Gautier Presbyterian Church shared that she felt “That Katrina blew the holy spirit into Gautier Presbyterian Church.”