National Disaster Response
Past Trips & Teams

September 2005 Gulfport, Mississippi
This team, led by Lt. Tony Bell of Baltimore Corps, worked with Christ in Action to feed thousands after Hurricane Katrina.

September 2005 Meterie, Louisiana
This team, led by Maj. Byron Martin of the Washington, D.C. Corps, worked with Christ in Action to feed thousands after Hurricane Katrina and Rita.

March 2006 Bayou La Batre, Alabama
This team, led by Maj. Byron Martin of the Washington, D.C. Corps, worked with Nazarene Compassion Ministries to help rebuild homes -helping to get hurricane victims back into their homes.

May 2006 Return to Bayou La Batre, Alabama
Led by Maj. Byron Martin from the D.C. Corps, returned to work again with the Nazarene Compassion Ministries to help the rebuilding process, successfully getting two families back into their homes.

May 2007 Pahokee, Florida
Led by Maj. Byron Martin from the D.C. Corps and working through Rev. Danny Moore and Higher Ground Ministries, this team took on several projects to help re-build a town devastated by several hurricanes that did back to back damage they are still trying to recuperate from.

July 2007 Disaster Response Goes National
At a National Council Meeting held in Baltimore, MD by the American Rescue Workers, Gen. Claude Astin declares that the disaster relief efforts will become an arm of the national organization and Maj. Byron Martin was named the Director of the National Disaster Response unit.

October 2007 Canton, Ohio
Led by Maj. Byron Martin, we turn our attention to help our fellow corps in Canton, Ohio to open up their New Life Center.

May 2008 Hollidaysburg, PA
Led jointly by Maj. Byron Martin & Rev. Danny Moore, this local corps lines up three families in desperate need of our building skills.