Disaster Relief: Counting Another Stellar Example of the United Methodist Connection at Work

BY DANA PARKER

Saturday, we had 12 participants at the Early Response Team training at Okmulgee First.

I picked up 45 kits from Okmulgee First and 10 from McAlester First on Saturday. Durant First just dropped off 95 kits.

I’m expecting 35 kits from Yukon Good Shepherd, 15 from Hennesey FUMC’s youth group, and 20 from OCU’s Youth Service Day/Wesley Foundation.

The kits were transported Wednesday morning to our UMCOR affiliated warehouse in Columbia, Missouri. The Missouri Conference Disaster Response oversees that warehouse. They will replace the kits that were sent to the southeast part of the country after Helene/Milton.

We delivered 225 buckets to the Missouri Conference’s warehouse.

That’s the power of the connection!

Tim Hughes helped lead Early Response Team training at Okmulgee First.

Travis Pathkiller with Pryor FUMC loads kits during a break at ERT training.

Staff at the OKUMC Conference office helped load buckets from Durant-Caddo onto the truck.

Dana and Roger Parker delivered 225 buckets to the Missouri Conference warehouse, pictured here with Lucas Endicott.

Members of First UMC Durant-Caddo prepared 95 flood buckets after worship, and delivered them to the conference office to be shipped to the distribution warehouse in Missouri.

Members of First UMC Durant-Caddo prepared 95 flood buckets after worship, and delivered them to the conference office to be shipped to the distribution warehouse in Missouri.

Members of First UMC Durant-Caddo prepared 95 flood buckets after worship, and delivered them to the conference office to be shipped to the distribution warehouse in Missouri.