http://www.disasterreliefteam.org Helping Disaster Victims of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita & Wilma Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:37:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 4a.m. That was the time our alarms rang each morning and we sprang into action. Our team was working with four other charities to provide 8,000 hot meals a day to the residents of Jasper County, who were without electricity for several weeks. (Jasper is just above Beaumont, where ... http://www.disasterreliefteam.org/2005/10/26/a-team-from-east-texas-helps-with-relief-work-in-jasper/ By: Robert Haskell We visited a High School in Woodlands, Texas being used as a shelter for the handicapped. Two days after Hurricane Rita struck, Cheerup International was there to bring love and laughter. The Lord helped us lift the spirits of this mature generation through our ... http://www.disasterreliefteam.org/2005/10/07/katrina-%e2%80%93-rita-deliver-double-whammy-to-louisiana/ From Jon and Sam: We've been visiting the shelter at Kelly air force base every day to spend time with the evacuees, talk with them and offer comfort and prayer. We've heard many stories from the evacuees of how they have lost everything. They said that when the levees broke ... http://www.disasterreliefteam.org/2005/10/01/update-from-kelly-air-force-base/ From the HopeReach team: We are so thankful that the Lord answered our prayers and spared much of Texas from Rita's fury. Nevertheless, a lot of damage was done, and we have once more been very busy at the emergency shelters. At the beginning of the week, we helped process a ... http://www.disasterreliefteam.org/2005/10/01/rita-update-from-east-texas/ From Jon, San Antonio We went to an old Wal-mart which had been set up as an evacuation center for people from Houston fleeing Hurricane Rita. We worked for a few hours setting up a food court for 2000+ evacuees to eat lunch. It consisted of unloading and sorting boxes of ... http://www.disasterreliefteam.org/2005/09/28/volunteer-trip-from-miami-florida/ From Suzy, San Antonio Nick, Joanna and Chris joined Karen, Rose and John to minister to evacuees at the Kelly Center in San Antonio. We went as teams to the zones that were made up of large rooms where the evacuees are housed. Nick and I visited the evacuees at their ... http://www.disasterreliefteam.org/2005/09/28/the-kelly-shelter/ From Peter & Topaz: On Sunday we ran into Denarold & Alaina at the Arena. They are part of the Simon Family that we met on Friday. They were happy to see us and immediately wanted to talk. Denarold had witnessed many terrible events including a murder at the ... http://www.disasterreliefteam.org/2005/09/28/last-days-at-the-reliant-center-part-3/ From Peter & Topaz: Leroy, (below) was full of praise for his delivery from Katrina and shared his great concern for the lost youth of New Orleans. He suffered an unfortunate accident while on the job 2 years ago that left him debilitated. When he prayed to receive Jesus all ... http://www.disasterreliefteam.org/2005/09/28/last-days-at-the-reliant-center-part-2/ From Peter & Topaz: The last weekend of the Astrodome/Reliant shelters was the weekend of September 16th, 17th, & 18th. The residents had been given notice that the shelter was closing and everyone had to be out by Tuesday the 21st. Tensions were quite high over this issue and there ... http://www.disasterreliefteam.org/2005/09/27/final-day-at-the-reliant-center/ Ruth reporting from Houston We decided to brave the storm here in Houston. When we prayed together we received the verse, “…and He arose and rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm!” ... http://www.disasterreliefteam.org/2005/09/26/rita-relief-report-from-the-cheer-up-team/