National Disaster Response
Road Trips

Rebuilding Efforts in Bayou La Batre, Alabama
by Maj. Byron E. Martin

We are preparing to head to Monroeville, Alabama in March 2006 and will be setting up a base of operations at the Monroeville Nazarene Church. Pastor Freddie Lindsey, of Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, is the Operations Coordinator who sets up the task forces and job locations for volunteer carpenters and other workers to lend their strength and abilities to help people to reclaim their homes from the disasters of 2005. We will be working in the Bayou La Batre, Alabama area where devastation is still widespread and many have not been able to return to their homes. The first group will head out from the American Rescue Workers D.C. Corps early on March 1st of this year and return on the 12th. Each member of this eight man team will need $300 in donations to help pay for fuel and food for this trip. Donations will be made to the American Resuce Workers and will be a tax deductible. We will also be renting a U-Haul truck one way to take much needed pallets of water, Gatorade, Crisis Care Kits, cleaning solutions, mops, brooms and food items to the Nazarene Compassionate Ministries storage facility where it will be distributed to those who need it most. Thank you for your continued support and may God bless you richly. Please PRAY for us.