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Short Video: Homeowner Testimony from Houston
"They want to share God's love with everybody..."
Tips for Organizing a Disaster Response Team from Your Church
Serving on a disaster response team or short-term missions team is an opportunity to live out your faith by working at the intersection of the Great Commandment and the Great Commission...
Disaster Response Resources
Disaster response guides, tips, and videos, to help you and your church respond to disasters...
New Neighbors, New Friends
Please pray that the Lord might bring more children to our after-school program, more adults to our English class, and more interested people to our Bible study...
Houston Hurricane Response Ministry: This is Not the End of the Story
Please do not consider this the end of the story in Houston....The impact of this storm on the lives of millions of people and thousands of businesses is still being profoundly felt and experienced...
You Are the God Who Works Wonders
There are truly no words to express the gratitude we feel having such a church as the OPC to come around us and help in our deepest time of need. I will never forget what God has done for us, and my faith has strengthened...
Houston Hurricane Response Ministry: Just How Significant This Work Has Been
This has to be one of the greatest things the OPC has done recently...
Hurricane Harvey Response Ministry: Report to General Assembly 2018
Our prayer is that through the outreach ministry of disaster relief and recovery, we in the OPC can help people find an enduring answer to the question of “why?” It will be manifested by the work we do of physical and material assistance we provide in the name of Christ, and by the testimony of the gospel that we proclaim to people as we have opportunity...
Houston Hurricane Response Volunteer Team: Joyful in Their Work and Play
From Jeff Davis, Site Coordinator:I was blessed to spend time with the team of 37 volunteers from the URC Youth Group in Dutton, Michigan. They proved to be very well organized and joyful in their work and play time...
Houston Hurricane Response Volunteer Testimonials
Every person that we helped was so genuinely thankful and appreciative of the work. But while the help that we gave was very beneficial to the people, the impact that these people made on us was so much greater than the help they could have received from us...
Houston Hurricane Response Ministry: Our Love in Action
The work here is unquestionably important and an incredible opportunity for us to reach people spiritually. I am confident that our love in action has touched many, many people and has borne witness to Christ's love...
Hurricane Maria Response: "Rebirth" in Puerto Rico
Great photos of a combined Reformed Mission Services and OPC team that traveled to Puerto Rico in May 2018 to work on damage caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017...
Loving Our Refugee Neighbors
NEW HORIZONS, May 2018: ...there may be no place in the country as kaleidoscopically, vibrantly, viscerally diverse....Their presence in our country gives the church a unique opportunity to meet the physical needs of our friends while we share the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ with them...
Houston Hurricane Response Ministry: A Sustained Work of Mercy
What began as a frenzied effort to respond to the immediate aftermath of the worst hurricane to hit Texas in decades, and the worst flooding in the Houston area in living memory, has blossomed into a sustained work of mercy and outreach in one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the United States...
Local and Presbytery Disaster Response Training Videos
These videos comprise a brief tutorial that presents ideas and methods by which to restore worship within the local and regional church, and demonstrate the compassionate love of Christ to the community, following a disaster...
Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico 6-Month Update
Now that daily life is returning to normal in Puerto Rico with the restoration of electricity, water, internet, etc., more attention can be directed to buildings and property that sustained damage in the storm...
Houston Hurricane Response Ministry: Outreach, Work List, Team Videos
Daily devotions set the tone for the outreach aspect of this ministry which is focused on being the hands and feet of Jesus. This leads to occasions almost every day for evangelistic conversations...
Hurricane Irma: Thank You from Key West
On behalf of those in Key West, we wish to express thanks for the concern, prayers, volunteers, and gifts sent...
Hurricane Maria Exposed Our Vulnerability
Hurricane Maria exposed our vulnerability and revealed the power of God. Spiritual needs have now come to the surface, and the restoring power of Jesus is seen even more clearly . . .
Light in the Darkness of Puerto Rico
NEW HORIZONS, February 2018: "We know that God calls us to do our work with devotion, and we want to spread the gospel where God puts us ... Our goal is to be present and minister ... "