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	Grenada Winds Lake Etang sits atop the Grand Etang Mountain, highest point in southern Grenada, 1910 feet above the Atlantic Ocean. Across the rippling, deep waters of the lake are woods and mountain peaks. Many trees are leafless trunks left not by fire but by the fury of Hurricane Ivan, which made landfall on the island in September 2004. Other trees have begun to sprout new leaves, soon to be tested by the winds. Source: New World Outlook More about: Christian love \| Communities \| GBGM programs \| Health \| Missionaries \| Natural disasters \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Volunteers \| Grenada \| Date posted: Jan 09, 2006
	UMCOR Directors Approve $1.5 Million for Start-up Work in Haiti UMCOR directors have approved $1.5 million for start-up and program implementation costs on the Caribbean island. Although United Methodists have worked in Haiti for years - particularly through the Methodist Church in Haiti - this is the first time UMCOR has undertaken the legal process of registering as a nongovernmental organization there, according to Marc Maxi, UMCOR's regional director for Africa and the Caribbean. Source: United Methodist News Service More about: Agriculture \| Emergencies \| Natural disasters \| Poverty \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Caribbean Islands \| Grenada \| Haiti \| Date posted: Apr 15, 2005
	UMCOR Slates Long Term Hurricane Recovery Operations in Haiti, Grenada A $2 million United Methodist relief investment will assist residents of Haiti and Grenada to rebuild and repair homes and revive economies after hurricanes devastated both islands in September 2004. The board of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) meeting here, approved the project proposals. The new operations will augment $288,000 in emergency aid already dispatched to the island nations following Tropical Storm Jeanne and Hurricane Ivan. Source: UMCOR Press Releases More about: Emergencies \| Natural disasters \| Poverty \| Rural \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Caribbean Islands \| Grenada \| Haiti \| Date posted: Apr 13, 2005
	UMCOR Hotline, April 12, 2005 In New Jersey, volunteers are cleaning up with 400 UMCOR flood buckets sent from Mission Central in Pennsylvania. UMCOR is part of an ecumenical coalition that rushed emergency aid to the island of Nias in the Indian Ocean. UMCOR is putting out an urgent call for health kits. UMCOR is at work in Haiti, where nearly 30,000 have remained homeless since Hurricane Jeanne's thrashing, and Grenada, where Hurricane Ivan's winds destroyed 90 percent of buildings and virtually all its agriculture. Source: UMCOR More about: Children \| Education \| Emergencies \| Health \| Natural disasters \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Tsunami \| Armenia \| Azerbaijan \| Georgia \| Grenada \| Haiti \| Indonesia \| North Eastern U.S. \| Sri Lanka \| United States \| Africa \| Asia and the Pacific Islands \| Caribbean Islands \| Date posted: Apr 12, 2005
	Individual volunteers program offers chance to do more The Rev. David Barkley had been "reading and watching and praying about the terrible suffering going on around the world" and decided he wanted to assist in some tangible way. Source: United Methodist News Service More about: GBGM programs \| United Methodist Church \| Volunteers \| Estonia \| Grenada \| Mexico \| South Central U.S. \| United States \| Date posted: Mar 23, 2005
	UMCOR Hotline, February 1, 2005 The United Methodist Committee on Relief will assist with rehabilitation of rural schools near Basrah, Iraq. Another 4,500 UMCOR school kits are on their way to Grenadan children. An UMCOR staff member leaves this week to provide short-term logistics aid to the Methodist Church of Sri Lanka, and soon another UMCOR aid worker will go to Indonesia on a similar assignment. Source: UMCOR More about: Children \| Emergencies \| Health \| Mission opportunities \| Natural disasters \| One Great Hour of Sharing \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Partners/partnerships \| Tsunami \| Asia and the Pacific Islands \| Caribbean Islands \| Grenada \| India \| Indonesia \| Iraq \| Middle East \| Sri Lanka \| Date posted: Feb 01, 2005
	UMCOR Hotline, December 21, 2004 A new bulletin insert describes UMCOR's plans for expanding its work in Sudan. With UMCOR's help, he Methodist Church in Uruguay is sending teams of volunteer doctors and technicians to Artigas. Several thousand school kits are on their way to children in Grenada thanks to generous volunteers who help to assemble these supplies. One Great Hour of Sharing resources are available. Source: UMCOR More about: Advent \| Agriculture \| Children \| Christmas \| Education \| Emergencies \| Hunger \| Natural disasters \| One Great Hour of Sharing \| Special Sundays \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Volunteers \| Women \| Africa \| Caribbean Islands \| Grenada \| Latin America \| Sudan \| Uruguay \| Date posted: Dec 21, 2004
	UMCOR Hotline, November 2, 2004 Volunteers have put in more than a million hours in recovery projects in US regions pummeled by multiple hurricanes. In Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Minnesota, UMCOR grants assisting people in areas overrun by heavy floods. Flood buckets are urgently needed! A team of relief specialists just back from Haiti and Grenada is recommending new quick impact initiatives to help both island nations recover from devastating hurricanes. Source: UMCOR More about: AIDS/HIV \| Children \| Emergencies \| Health \| Natural disasters \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Volunteers \| Caribbean Islands \| Grenada \| Haiti \| North Central U.S. \| South Eastern U.S. \| United States \| Date posted: Nov 02, 2004
	UMCOR Recommends Quick Impact Support for Grenada, Haiti A team of United Methodist relief specialists just back from Haiti and Grenada is recommending new quick impact initiatives to help both island nations recover from devastating hurricanes in recent weeks. Urgent needs in Haiti include a speed-up of food distribution and reconstruction of homes. Grenada needs help restoring its nutmeg industry and in rebuilding community centers. Source: UMCOR More about: Children \| Communities \| Emergencies \| Health \| Hunger \| Mission opportunities \| Poverty \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Caribbean Islands \| Grenada \| Haiti \| Date posted: Oct 28, 2004
	UMCOR Hotline, October 26, 2004 UMCOR last week dispatched a team of workers to the Sudanese region of Darfur. UMCOR's assessments of Haiti and Grenada earlier this month have identified unmet needs in both island nations. Recovery efforts continue in areas of the Atlantic seaboard and Gulf Coast that were thrashed by multiple hurricanes earlier this fall. Source: UMCOR More about: AIDS/HIV \| Children \| Emergencies \| Health \| Natural disasters \| Poverty \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Volunteers \| Women \| Africa \| Caribbean Islands \| Grenada \| Haiti \| South Eastern U.S. \| Sudan \| United States \| Zimbabwe \| Date posted: Oct 26, 2004
	UMCOR Hotline, October 5, 2004 UMCOR highlights several initiatives to support World Food Day October 16. Teams from UMCOR will assess storm damage in Haiti, Grenada and the Caymans this week. UMCOR has sent grants to the church in the Bahamas, Cuba and Haiti, and to international partners in Grenada. In the southeastern United States, long-term case management plans for hurricane survivors have resumed. UMCOR issues urgent call for flood buckets and Medicine Boxes. In Liberia, school and health kits are needed. Source: UMCOR More about: Agriculture \| Children \| Emergencies \| Health \| Natural disasters \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Volunteers \| Africa \| Armenia \| Azerbaijan \| Bahamas \| Cambodia \| Caribbean Islands \| Cayman Islands \| Cuba \| Georgia \| Grenada \| Haiti \| Liberia \| Date posted: Oct 05, 2004
	Letter from UMCOR: On the Job "A disaster area so large it's difficult to get outside of it to get what you need." That is the assessment of UMCOR disaster workers after four hurricanes in six weeks pummeled parts of Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana, and created havoc in many other communities up to 1,000 miles away. Source: UMCOR More about: Christian love \| Donations \| Emergencies \| Mission opportunities \| Natural disasters \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Volunteers \| Caribbean Islands \| Grenada \| Haiti \| South Eastern U.S. \| United States \| Date posted: Sep 30, 2004
	UMCOR Hotline, September 28, 2004 Hurricane Jeanne has delayed long-term case management initiatives in mid-Florida while UMCOR volunteers and workers clean up after the fourth major storm in six weeks. UMCOR has provided grants to other annual conferences where hurricanes spawned tornadoes and drenched saturated soils. UMCOR international disaster staff members anticipate conducting assessments in Haiti. UMCOR will also assess the scope of disaster in Grenada. Source: UMCOR More about: Children \| Emergencies \| Health \| Natural disasters \| Rural \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Volunteers \| Bahamas \| Caribbean Islands \| Grenada \| Haiti \| North Eastern U.S. \| South Eastern U.S. \| United States \| Date posted: Sep 28, 2004
	UMCOR Hotline, September 21, 2004 UMCOR is responding to hurricanes, storms, and floods in the USA and the Caribbean. More than 700 people have died in Haiti from flooding and mudslides. UMCOR emergency field staff plan to assess damage in Grenada and Jamaica. Hurricane Ivan lashed densely populated beach areas of Pensacola, Florida. Source: UMCOR Africa \| Armenia \| Azerbaijan \| Bahamas \| Caribbean Islands \| Cuba \| Georgia \| Grenada \| Haiti \| Jamaica \| Russia \| South Eastern U.S. \| United States \| Date posted: Sep 21, 2004
	Listos para responder a los huracanes (UMCOR) En momentos en que cientos de miles de personas en el Caribe y en ambas costas del estado de la Florida continúan limpiando los escombros causados por los recientrecientes huracanes y tormentas tropicales, nuevos huracanes amenazan desatar toda su fuerza sobre esas mismas áreas. El Comité Metodista Unido de Auxilio está listo para responder al desafío. Source: UMCOR More about: Christian love \| Natural disasters \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Volunteers \| Bahamas \| Caribbean Islands \| Cuba \| Grenada \| Jamaica \| Date posted: Sep 19, 2004
	UMCOR Powers Hurricane Response With Grants, Volunteers Recovery from the multiple hurricanes of this season moves forward. Already UMCOR and the Florida Annual Conference have assisted more than 80,000 Floridians. Powering the response are equipment, volunteers, and monetary grants. Source: UMCOR More about: Emergencies \| Mission opportunities \| Natural disasters \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Volunteers \| Bahamas \| Caribbean Islands \| Cuba \| Grenada \| Jamaica \| South Eastern U.S. \| United States \| Date posted: Sep 15, 2004
	UMCOR Hotline, September 14, 2004 Medicine Boxes are urgently needed for the Caucasus. UMCOR is responding to Hurricanes Ivan, Frances, and Charley. UMCOR needs school and health kits for Liberia and Beslan, Russia. UMCOR is responding to recent devastating floods in Liberia. Source: UMCOR More about: Children \| Emergencies \| Health \| Mission opportunities \| Natural disasters \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Violence \| Volunteers \| Africa \| Armenia \| Asia and the Pacific Islands \| Azerbaijan \| Bahamas \| Barbados \| Caribbean Islands \| Cuba \| Georgia \| Grenada \| Jamaica \| Philippines \| South Eastern U.S. \| United States \| Date posted: Sep 14, 2004
	Letter from UMCOR: Ready to Respond to Triple Hurricanes As people in the Caribbean and on Florida's Atlantic and Gulf coasts clear away debris from the one-two punch of hurricanes Frances and Charley, a third large storm, Ivan, is bearing down on those very areas. The United Methodist Committee on Relief will be ready to respond. Source: UMCOR More about: Donations \| Emergencies \| Natural disasters \| UMCOR \| Volunteers \| Bahamas \| Caribbean Islands \| Cuba \| Grenada \| Jamaica \| South Eastern U.S. \| United States \| Date posted: Sep 10, 2004
	UMCOR Responds to One-Two Punch of Dual Storms Frances' arrival in Florida marks the first time in 100 years that two major hurricanes have hit the state within a three-week span. Charley and Frances were a devastating one-two punch. Now Ivan, the fifth hurricane of the season, is on a direct path toward Cuba, Jamaica, and Florida. Yesterday the very dangerous storm struck several Caribbean islands. Source: UMCOR More about: Emergencies \| Natural disasters \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| Barbados \| Caribbean Islands \| Cuba \| Grenada \| Jamaica \| Saint Lucia \| Saint Vincent \| South Eastern U.S. \| Tobago \| United States \| Date posted: Sep 08, 2004
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