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What is?
Your Church deciding to:
Prepare
Your Church deciding to:
Connect
Your Church deciding to:
Respond
A Georgia Department of Emergency Management preparation platform for
churches
Why?Virginia has Shootings
Why?Virginia has Floods
Why?Virginia has Tornados
Why?
Virginia has Earthquakes
Why?
Virginia has terror attacks
Why?
Virginia has Massive Electrical Outages
Why?
Virginia has Massive Vehicle Crashes
Why?
Virginia has Industrial Accidents
Why?Virginia needs Christ
Most churches and
organizations fail to prepare for
any kind of disaster and miss
ministry opportunities
Titus 3:1b - “…to be ready for
every good work.”
Titus 3: 14 – “And our people must also learn to devote themselves to good works for cases of urgent need, so that they may not be unfruitful.”
WHY NOT JUST DR?• At least 80% of those trained never respond• Empowering the local church to respond,
multiplies the impact• All responses are local in nature• God has called the church to minister to
their neighbors
Faces of Ready Church
“GO” teams meet the crisis needs in their Jerusalem under the authority of the local church. Ready Church “GO” teams are well versed in Disaster Relief protocols and procedures.
Faces of Ready Church
A Ready Church responds outside their Jerusalem under the direction of their State Disaster Relief Leader. They meet the full requirements set forward by the fellowship’s National Disaster Relief Leadership.
Faces of Ready Church
A Ready Church responds to international needs under the direction of fellowship’s foreign mission board.Meeting all the requirements set forward by the board.
Faces of Ready Church
A Ready Church responds to meet the construction needs of other churches, families and other entities under the direction of the local church, state convention/association or other parthers.
Faces of Ready Church
A Ready Church participates in the long term rebuilding efforts after a disaster under the direction of the church’s fellowship or the impacted State Convention.
Benchmarks of excellence
EvangelismSafety
Spiritual First Aid Structure (ICS)
FeedingCommitted to Respond
Debris clean-upConstruction/Rebuild
Prepare
A Strategic Plan“GO” teams
Get: TrainedConnected to respond
Develop:
Connect
• To the people in your community that can help you respond • To the people in your community that
may need your assistance• To your connecting national fellowship
that can enable you to be prepared
Respond
• The church develops strategy for response to the needs of the local community • The church establishes protocol to
come to the church’s facilities when disaster occurs
Ready Church Plan• Should assess the most
likely disaster threats
• Should be flexible and adaptable
• Should consider the needs of individuals and families
• Should include specific ministries and target strategic areas where the church can have real impact
• Should remember, “ministry is the act of serving”
• Should include training for members in ministering to those caught in crisis
Organizing for Disaster Response
• Develop a “Go” team• Contact local emergency management to assess
hazards • Talk to other churches and disaster organizations
to assess needs and identify gaps of ministry• Identify ministry points of contact• Develop ministries that fit the giftedness of the
church body• Train team to enable effective response
“Go” Team
• Response Leader or IC• Logistics Coordinator (Officer)• Operations Coordinator• Volunteer Coordinator• Evangelism Coordinator• Administrative or Planning
Coordinator
Church facilities:• Bulk distribution center:
(food, clothing, supplies)• Child-care center• Communication center
• Command center
• Feeding site• Information
center• Shelter for
victims• Shelter for
volunteers• Staging area
Ready Church Response
Identify and train volunteers to care for children, the elderly, sick or disabled
Identify bilingual interpreters to assist those who speak another language
Participate in ministries such as receiving and organizing donated goods, bedding, bulk food, clean-up, and household supplies
Provide logistical support to trained disaster relief volunteers such as housing and meals
Cooperate with community disaster agencies Develop and organize clean-up or repair crews,
such as chainsaw, debris clean-up,
flood relief, and roof tarp teams Organize and participate in re-build efforts
Ready Church Response
Contact and minister to church shut-ins, elderly, disabled, and single mothers following disasters by developing a vulnerable phone list pre-disaster.
Offer your church as a resource center for helping agencies to assist affected victims.
Train Chaplains to provide spiritual care to those affected by disaster and those serving as responders. KY Baptist Disaster Relief offers training for Disaster Relief Chaplains.
Connect to a local school and train to be prepared for school crises, such as school shootings, suicides, accidents, pregnancy counseling, etc.
Consider making your church available as an American Red Cross shelter.
Collect and distribute blankets, clothing vouchers, or furniture to fire victims, or teddy bears and children’s blankets to affected families
The “Go” Team should plan and lead in 3-4 events yearly to: Increase response
effectiveness Maintain strategy
focus Grow team unity Develop community
relationships
“Go” Team Ideas• Conduct a Block Party• Appreciation meal for policeman or fireman• Build playground for school or park• Home repairs for single mothers• Yard and gutter clean-up for widows• Plan and conduct Wild game banquet• Distribute water or lemonade at a community event• Assist with school backpack program• Volunteer or prepare a meal for homeless ministry• Participate in disaster relief response exercises
Ready Church
Provides a tremendous
opportunity to share the help,
healing and hope of Christ
“Dear children, let us not love with words or
speech but with actions and in
truth.”
(1 John 3:18)
www.sbcv.org/ready-church
