Disaster Response is a shared emergency outreach of both former North Indiana and South Indiana conferences. Each conference has volunteer disaster response coordinators who work closely with the United Methodist Volunteer-in-Mission coordinators to provide both supplies and volunteers to a needed area. This section of the conference Web site includes the names of Disaster Response coordinators for North and South Indiana as well as coordinator for relief projects in progress. In the event of a disaster, both natural and human-made, in your community and you need emergency assistance in dealing with the disaster contact:
For the latest in Disaster News and Recovery, log on to www.disasternews.net and www.gbgm-umc.org/umcor
The floods may seem long gone and out of the news, however volunteers are still needed to assist residence in northwest, far northwest and the central parts of Indiana.
In far northwest Indiana, contact the Lakeshore Area Regional Recovery in Indiana (LARRI). Visit www.larri.info, located at the United Way of Porter County at 951 Eastport Centre Drive, Valparaiso, IN 46384. Phone 219-447-3583 or toll-free 877-LARRI4U, fax 219-477-5845.
Across central Indiana. For work team schedules in the Columbus area, contact Angie Huebel at the United Way of Bartholomew County, 1531 13th Street, Columbus, IN 47201. E-mail ahuebel@uwbarthco.org or phone 812-314-2344. For other communities, contact Jenni Walker, South Indiana Resource Administrator.
In Northwest Indiana contact Alan H. Welch, director, DANI-Disaster Assistance for Northwest Indiana 1021 N 10th Street, Lafayette, IN 47904-1947 of Phone 765-742-4718. Call toll-free 877-773-0249 or send e-mail to welchah@gmail.com. DANI information is available by visiting http://daniflood.org.