VOLUNTEERS NEEDED--CAN YOU HELP?
We are getting our support structure in place to coordinate offers of assistance with needs in our communities. We need volunteers to help us for the next couple of months in the following areas:
Worksite Assignment Manger – someone to work with the Volunteer Coordinator in assigning work groups to work sites
Case Workers - people to do on-site visits of families needing assistance. It would be especially helpful to have folks with degrees in social work.
Financial Officer – A CPA serving on the Ike Recovery Team to help administer funds and design systems of financial reporting and accountability.
The Golden Triangle area is prepared to receive work groups immediately. Beverly Antilley is our Golden Triangle Volunteer Coordinator. Her phone 409 223-0118 She can handle groups coming in with work assignments and accommodations and other information.
Clean up buckets can be take to Clear Lake Presbyterian Church. CLPC will oversee the distribution of the buckets to the community.
The High Island Retreat Center will be housing some teachers from the High Island Independent School District who lost their homes to the storm. There is still no electricity on High Island and no generators available. If anyone has a generator they are no longer using and would be wiling to donate/loan it to the Retreat Center, that would be very helpful to those we are housing. The teachers also need food, cleaning supplies and toilet paper.
Please contact Mike Cole at the Presbyterian Center for more information or if you want to volunteer. (email: mcole at pbyofnewcovenant dot org )
3 comments:
We have a generator, it is currently being used by friends in Meyerland but as soon as it is a available Presbytery is welcome to borrow it.
That's great! When it becomes available, call the presbytery office.
Another thought for the future. What if Presbytery made an appeal to churches and individuals inside our presbytery, and beyond if necessary, for funds to install a natural gas generator. powerful enough to run the center, for emergency use. The retreat center is in an area that is hit so often and could become a real outreach to communities in times of emergency.
Just a thought.
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