Disaster Assistance Adairsville AL

After talking with leaders of Adairsville Church of Christ again today decision was made that the need wasn't there for our services. The Elders were very appreciative of our willingness to come and help and will let us know if anything changes.

Disaster Assistance Mission- Adairsville GA Tornado

I have been talking with leaders of the Adairsville Church of Christ. The church building has been damaged. I am waiting for Elders to find out how long power will be out in the town. They are waiting on update from City Manager for that information. If it is going to be out for a few days than I will take the Mobile Headquarters there tonight and start cooking meals tomorrow. They are going to get back with me in a couple of hours.

Disaster Assistance Mission/Hurricane Sandy

By Rebecca Aponte-Young Disaster Assistance has donated $3,000 towards the purchase of StopandShop Gift Cards to be handed out to Sandy victims to help feed their families. The Long Island Church of Christ are distributing them to the people and families that are currently studying the Bible. Here are a few pictures that have been captured, but there have been many more distributed than you can see here.

Bible Studies continue to happen and the Gospel of Jesus is flowing out along with the material help and hand we are giving many in partnership with many brethren who have joined in this effort. May His name and truth continue to be made known among the nations! By Long Island Church of Christ. There is an ongoing relief effort in Coney Island, Island park and the Rockaways, praise God! As people are getting back on their feet and clean up and reconstruction is finished, we are now giving out Washers/Dryers, refrigerators, Stoves, COuches, tables, bedroom furniture, etc. Here are some of the many families that are being blessed with these items sent to the Long Island Church of Christ by the Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort in TN. Stephen Aponte is heading up the distribution of these appliances and furniture. Pray for his strength and support to fulfill this mission.. Kevin Lynch has been his right hand man in making these deliveries. Praise God! If you know someone who wlost everything in the storm please comment here and we can help them too..Please keep praying for this effort. Thank you! By: Rebecca Aponte-Young

Disaster Assistance Mission continues to help in NY along with Long Island CoC.

Disaster Assistance has has sent more funds towards the purchase of Stop & Shop Gift Cards to be handed out to Sandy victims to help feed their families. The Long Island Church of Christ are distributing them to the people and families that are currently studying the Bible. Here are a few pictures that have been captured, but there have been many more distributed than you can see here. By: Rebecca Aponte-Young

Christmas for the Kids

This family of 12 lost everything they owned in the Hurricane Sandy. They are temporarily housed in a hotel by FEMA. They are in great need and were extremely grateful for the blessing of the gift cards. — at Far Rockaway NY.

Maria is planning on studying the Bible with rebecca Rebecca Aponte-Young soon. Maria just gave birth this past Tuesday. She was thrilled to receive the gift cards! She has four children and is currently out of work. She was so thankful!!!

Chandra is currently studying the Bible with Laura Aponte and Jackie Lynch(Long Island CoC. Chaundra has 6 children and was so happy and thankful for the blessing of the gift cards.

Disaster Assistance Mission Feed the Kids Program

Thanks so much for all the follow up that Long Island and Far Rockaway Churches of Christ are doing. Take a look at all of these photos. This is what makes all of the hours, miles and hard work worth while. www.disasterassistancecoc.com Taken from Rebecca Aponte-Young FB post. Above photos are some families who are currently studying the Bible with our sisters from Long Island Church of Christ. Today, thanks to Disaster Assistance and an anonymous Brother from the LICOC, these families received gift cards to ToysRUS for each of their children! They were in tears with thankfulness. Praise God! $2300 worth of gift cards were purchased yesterday to be handed out to families in need who are currently studying the bible with us. God is good!

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Christmas for the Kids of Hurricane Sandy

We are going to be switching from our Feed the Kids Program to the Disaster Assistance Mission's Christmas For Kids program. In conjunction with Long Island Church of Christ we are going to be giving gift cards from Toys R Us to the kids parents so they can purchase Christmas presents. We are giving Tors R Us cards to better assure that the card is used to purchase something for the child. Long Island CoC has between 350 - 400 families that they are working with, the children of these families are the ones we will be helping. You to can still help just click on donate button to the right, this will take you to a secure paypal site. All you need to do is follow the instructions. Please donate $ 25, 50, 100 or more. We will get the gift cards and Long Island CoC members will deliver them. Help us bring a smile to a child Christmas morning.

Long Island Church of Christ Follow Up

Taken in part from Rebecca Aponte-Young's FB post. We have entered phase two of this work. We are no longer setting up tables and serving hundreds of people at a time in the streets of Far Rockaway or Coney Island. Instead we have taken the 300+ names that we collected while doing the phase one relief effort, and we are calling them one by one. And as we call, our list keeps growing. There are about 60 Christians from the Long Island Church of Christ involved in making phone calls, arranging deliveries, making deliveries, doing Bible studies in these people's homes, praying with people, etc. We are going door to door, case by case and delivering the Churches of Christ Disaster relief Effort goods/suppies to individual families, seeking to meet their personal needs and to get opportunites to share Jesus with them. Some of us are helping people find jobs and places to live. Many, many bible studies are being conducted. There have been a few Community Bible studies, where several people who live in a particular community are invited to come hear a gospel presentation. There is a tremendous work being done over here. Please pray for everyone's strength, that we may not grow weary in doing good, and that souls will be won over to the Lord. There is a Community Bible study today at our sister Jackie Lynch's home.

Disaster Assistance Hurricane Sandy

Photo below is two of the Elders from East Main Church of Christ, Murfreesboro TN that came to pick up the trailer they had left here for storage. I sent back our two largest generators with them so Don can have them repaired. Only one of our 4 generators is still working. Running on generators 24/7 has taken its toll on them. Our meal count is now 22,388. Long Island and Far Rockaway Churches of Christ have delivered over 10 semi loads of other supplies to many different areas. Long Island CoC has over 350 families that they are doing follow with.

Feeding the Kids in Far Rockaway NY

Today we did 934 meals in the pouring rain. We had our normal walkup people and our after school kids but also today we had a whole bus load of volunteers that were working in the area that came and picked up meals.

Happy Holidays To Everyone

Above are the Holiday cards I was going to send out but I am still trying to get out thank you letters to those of you who have sent donations so thought I would just say Happy Holidays and show you the card you would have received had we not been working a disaster in December.

Feeding The Kids-Far Rockaway NY

Today was another busy one. 568 meals all handed out here at the Mobile Headquarters. Over 450 of them were to the kids.

-Disaster Assistance Mission-Feeding the Kids-Far Rockaway-

Well I think I am frozen to the bone. Long Island didn't hand out meals or supplies today they were unloading load of supplies that was delivered today. We did 333 meals here at the Mobile Headquarters. 275 of which was handed out to the Kids in the freezing rain. You can see in the photo that they start eating as soon as we give them a meal.

Disaster Assistance Mission - FEEDING THE KIDS

This week we will be doing our normal meals here at the Mobile Headquarters and sending out meals with Long Island and Far Rockaway Church of Christ. Also we are going to be FEEDING THE KIDS. As I stated before the high school where we are setup is closed because of Hurricane Sandy damage, so the kids are being bussed to other schools. When they are bussed back here in the afternoon we are going to give them a meal before they get on another bus to be taken home. Like normal kids some of them grab the meal and run but others stop and thank you. One boy last week thanked us and said we had made a difference in his life. We will hand out between 250-300 meals between 3 and 4 PM weekdays. Wish all of you could see this. You can help just click on the donate button to your right.

Today we handed out meals in Far Rockaway NY with volunteers from Long Island and Far Rockaway CoC. Long Island CoC handed out meals and other much needed supplies in Is land Park NY. Areas we have helped with meals and supplies so far, Hoboken NJ, Far Rockaway-Coney Island-Island Park NY and tomorrow Long Island CoC will be taking our meals and other supplies to Lindenhurst and Island Park NY.

Disaster Assistance Mission-Far Rockaway/Hobolen/Coney Island

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone. Today was a GREAT day. We handed out 685 meals. Volunteers from Long Island and Far Rockaway Churches of Christ helped prepare and deliver them. There was at least 25 to 30 volunteers here helping. Thanks so much to everyone for all your prayers and donations. Without those we could not do this work. Also thank you Lord for giving me good health to do this work and for keeping me warm in this COLD-COLD place. Photo below is just some of the volunteers working.

Today Long Island CoC picked up meals and took them to Island Point along with other supplies to be handed out. Volunteers from Far Rockaway helped with meals here at the Mobile Headquarters. We did 505 meals today, around 250 of them went to the kids after school. Photo is from yesterday in Coney Island where Long Island CoC was handing out meals and supplies.

Disaster Assistance Mission-Far Rockaway NY/Hoboken NJ

I had a meeting on Wednesday with the Assistant Commissioner Community Affairs and talked with him about housing for volunteers. He told me the reason there is no housing available is because there is still around 15,000 people in shelters. Some of these shelters would be used for volunteers but are full with people who still can't return to their homes. Photo below is people waiting in line for supplies at Far Rockaway Church of Christ. You can help us keep this work going from right where you are. We need only 3 things to keep this mission work going. YOUR PRAYERS - LOCAL VOLUNTEERS - FUNDS