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posted Mar 8, 2010 6:58 AM by Rob Hoell
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Responding to the earthquake in Chile
A devastating magnitude 8.8
earthquake struck Chile on Saturday, February 27, 2010, shattering buildings
and bridges and causing the issuance of tsunami warnings for much of Pacific
rim. Damage was particularly heavy in Concepción. That city, Chile’s
second-largest metropolitan area, is located only 70 miles from the
earthquake's epicenter.
Reports as of Monday morning, March
1, 2010 list the death toll at over 700, with a potential of more deaths as
tsunamis hit coastal areas. Approximately 1.5 million homes have been
destroyed.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is
working with our ecumenical partner Church World Service (CWS) in Chile to
provide basic humanitarian assistance and to help local partners in assessing
the needs. One Great Hour of Sharing funds will be used
for an initial response. Gifts for responding in Chile may be designated for
DR000185.
CWS emergency response staff have
been in contact with colleagues on the ground in Chile and is coordinating
their response with two Chilean agencies: FASIC (Fundacion de Ayuda Social de
las Iglesia Cristianas) and the Humanitarian Team of the Methodist Church of
Chile, IMECH. IMECH is part of the National Emergency Office (ONEMI),
the national coordinating body headed by the President. ONEMI has local
chapters in all regions, where coordination takes place with local counterparts.
PDA will also coordinate with
PC(USA) World Mission and their work with CLAI (Latin American Council of
Churches) and with ACT Alliance member Lutheran World Federation.
Carlos Cardenas, PC(USA) mission
co-worker in Nicaragua, is assisting in communication of assessments.
John Robinson, PDA associate for
national response, was in contact with presbytery staff in the Pacific rim
areas over the weekend, in case there were needs arising from tsunamis in the
aftermath of the quake. However, the effects of the tsunami did not
reach the United States.
Reports will be posted on the PDA
Web site as assessments continue and information becomes available.
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Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
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Email
( 888) 728-7228, x5839
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posted Feb 10, 2010 3:04 PM by Rob Hoell
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updated Feb 11, 2010 6:57 AM
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As we mourn the loss, may we also celebrate his life! The visitation for Don Dobson will be Friday at the High School from 4pm - 7pm and the Service will be here in the Sanctuary, Saturday morning at 11am. As coach, teacher, and christian, Don has had a great impact on lots of youth and adults alike, the visitation and service are sure to be filled with people and praises for our friend. Fellow members of the Fulton Presbyterian church may we help to make people as comfortable as possible as they deal with this loss and as visitors in our church. Help where you can.
Many prayers and blessings on Ramona and their family especially. |
posted Feb 6, 2010 4:14 PM by Rob Hoell
The Souper Bowl tables looked mostly equal Friday morning when I stopped by to help Janet get more connected to what I have going online so far. The SERVE Food Pantry is always needing donations and voting for the Colts is a great way to give :-) If you look to the menus on the left of this website you will see that the Newsletters are available online again. YAY!! We should be able to leave the past few weeks up so that people can catch up or look back for stuff, but as a free site the storage isn't unlimited. Also be sure to check out the Events Calendar. I quickly showed Janet how to keep that updated with all of the church activities and more and more should be showing up on there. We were even thinking about how it would be a good place to check before someone sets up in advance for their event, since the fellowship hall in particular is used for lots of different activities throughout the week. Scheduling is hard to keep up with so hopefully this will make it a little easier. We are taking steps toward a better web presence, keep with us, the best is yet to come. Smile, Rob |
posted Jan 22, 2010 12:52 PM by Rob Hoell
So I was a little slow on this...if you wanted to help you have probably already found ways to do it. If like me you have not taken action yet, here are the suggestions passed on to us from Presbytery
Friends in Missouri Union
Offerings received for relief/assistance in Haiti may be
directed to one of the following Presbyterian agencies.
1) If your intention is to provide support for long-term
recovery, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, which specializes in reconstruction, is the best place to make a difference.
Please designate account: DR000064 on any checks for Haiti. Gifts can be made
online at www.pcusa.org, by phone at (800) 872-3283, or by check. Checks may be given through
your local Presbyterian congregation or mailed to: Presbyterian Church-Disaster Assistance P.O. Box 643700 Pittsburg, PA
15264-3700.
If you go on-line to www.pcusa
enter PDA in the search box, and then click on the information about Haiti;
it's possible to make a pledge (which indicates your congregation and
presbytery) print that form, and mail it with your check, keeping a copy for
your records. [I used this to send a personal check right after the
earthquake.] Churches in Missouri Union
have already received and mailed contributions to PDA.
2) If you want to provide medical aid, the Medical
Benevolence Foundation (a validated Mission Support Group in covenant agreement
with the PCUSA) is receiving and forwarding funds to Haiti, where they already
have personnel and clinics. Mark checks "Earthquake Medical Response Fund
#530-453 and mail to: Medical Benevolence Foundation 3100 S. Gessner, Ste 219 Houston, TX 77063 Or contact MBF at (800) 547-7627 or at www.mbfoundation.org
3) For support of Presbyterian mission work that is
already in place and on going (but now with greatly increased needs) please
send funds to the Presbyterian Outreach Foundation www.theoutreachfoundation.org (800) 791-5023. A letter from the Outreach
Foundation is attached. Checks may be marked for Haiti and mailed to: The Outreach Foundation 318 Seaboard Lane, Suite 205 Franklin, TN 37067
Vicki Schildmeyer - Missouri Union Presbytery |
posted Jan 11, 2010 7:17 AM by Rob Hoell
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updated Jan 11, 2010 7:52 AM
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Hello,
So our website has been less than fully functional now for a very long time, we have tried several things and we have probably grown a little too accustomed to our site being out of date or altogether incorrect or dysfunctional in other ways. So this is the latest improvement, and I will update you on our status. You don't have to learn Hebrew or whatever, that is the demo stuff.
The last site was setup to be more interactive, but we had to be shown/taught how to interact with it, and before we even got fully trained on it...it crashed and all the info on it was lost. I have very little paper copies of what was there so if you happened to print say the worship or ministries pages I would really appreciate it if you dropped those past the church office.
The current site you see now, is hosted by Google Sites. Google seems to be very generous, so currently it is free and seems very stable for our needs and more intuitive to add the interaction that we were looking for. With all that said I have also added us on Facebook, also free, not as customizable and you have to ignore all their ads, but an increasingly common connection tool that we should be able to utilize in tandem with this site.
Like I said before, not everything is up to date or functioning as I would like...it all takes time and I should be getting with Janet soon so that she can integrate with the site better too. Let me know what else you would like to see added or changed
Thanks for your patience,
Rob Hoell, FPC web guru till someone else wants it :) |
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