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Louisiana Annual Conference Hurricane Katrina Message Board

by United Methodist News Service September 2, 2005

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Mission and Ministry
Evacuees in Mataas Na Kahoy in the province of Batangas, Philippines, receive relief goods from the Philippines Central Conference’s Asuncion Perez Memorial Center. United Methodists are among the many people responding to the thousands displaced by the Taal volcano eruption Jan. 12 on Luzon Island. Photo courtesy of Liza A. Cortez.

United Methodists in Philippines help volcano evacuees
Churches offer hot meals, other relief to thousands of evacuees as fears of a bigger eruption mount.
Mission and Ministry
Manila Area Bishop Ciriaco Q. Francisco (left) and Jestril Alvarado, West Pampanga District superintendent, help distribute food to Aeta communities in Floridablanca in the Pampanga province of the Philippines. Holding the microphone is the Rev. Leslie Casupanan-Dela Cruz. The United Methodist Committee on Relief issued a $100,000 grant to provide support for 860 indigenous families affected by a deadly earthquake. Photo by the Rev. Gilbert Cedillo.

UMCOR aids indigenous earthquake survivors
The United Methodist Committee on Relief issued a $100,000 grant to provide support for 860 Aeta families affected by spring quake.
The Rev. Beverly L. Wilkes-Null. Photo courtesy of Highland Hope United Methodist Church.

Living as United Methodists between the radical ends
Pastor sends out clarion call to centrists: “Now is the time to stand up, speak up and show up — prayed up and ready to do God’s work at General Conference 2020.”