Posted by While flood damage in Ellicott City, MD recently drew national attention, residents just a few miles away in the Beechfield neighborhood of Baltimore were also ravaged by the May 27 storm. Providentially, the community surrounds the Stillmeadow Evangelical Free Church. And also providentially, soon after Pastor Michael Martin came to lead the church last year,…Read more »
Posted by “Please keep us in your prayers. If this crisis continues as it is, it will bring a huge loss of humanity”. Rev. Ebuku, an Evangelical Free Church of Congo pastor recently shared this plea, regarding a recent outbreak of Ebola in The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The DRC is home to a large network Evangelical Free…Read more »
Posted by Not only does ReachGlobal Crisis Response partner with churches to help in times of crisis, but we also help churches to prepare for a potential future response to a crisis in their own community. With our Prepare Initiative, we can provide training for your church or group of churches who want to expand their ministry…Read more »
Posted by The scene today in Lebanon’s Bekka Valley is much like it has been since the first refugees arrived more than five years ago. Makeshift structures that sprung up amid fertile fields, intended to provide shelter for a few months for some of the 3+ million Syrian refugees, now have an uneasy sense of permanency…Read more »
Posted by Every day we encourage short term teams serving with us teams to take a break, and take to the streets for prayer walks. In a particular neighborhood near the Old Dickinson Bayou, 100% of the homes were flooded during Hurricane Harvey last August. There, we have had some great encounters, and already our volunteers’ green…Read more »
Posted by Written by Pastor Landon Jones, Executive Pastor, Riverside Community Church, Columbia, SC No one really thought that the storm would do much more than make for a very wet weekend. As Saturday night stretched into Sunday morning, we kept going back and forth about whether to call off our Sunday service, and to call off…Read more »
Posted by With any response, there are waves of many volunteers, and dry spells without any teams. Everyone wants to go right after the storm, but it’s harder to recruit teams years after the water had receded and the news cycle has moved on. It’s possible that no one knows this more than the people of Louisiana.…Read more »
