Impact Ministries (Hurricane Ike)

September 25, 2008

Galveston residents were allowed to return “home” today. Although, “home” is quite a relative term.

IMPACT Ministries’ JD & Toni Smith, in collaboration with many local ministries, is opening NOW an outreach center for ministry in Galveston on Galveston Island, south of Houston, Texas. The center will house volunteers for serving the Hurricane Ike residents, a feeding center, a community distribution center for residents needed supplies, and daily worship space. Also, there will ongoing counseling and case management for the residents in the offices for IMPACT Ministries and its local, regional and national partners. This IMPACT Regional Ministry Center will serve the entire area south of Houston and Galveston Island.

Our second TEXAS volunteer center will also open this week in Beaumont, Texas with a collaboration formed there with the local churches, local government, and some of IMPACT’s other partners from around the country. Our first semi-load of supplies will arrive there this weekend. At 8:45 pm CDT Wednesday night, the mayor of Beaumont gave clearance for any and all activities that IMPACT desires for his city and the many surrounding towns and cities.

A team of volunteers from North Carolina has transported a kitchen trailer, and other equipment into the region. IMPACT is ready to take teams now and in within this very week can house a thousand people a day, in various locations across the Guf Coast in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.

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If you are a team leader or individual seeking further information or to see if specific dates are available please fill out the online inquiry here.

If we have already made initial contact and checked dates please download this form, make needed copies, and have every member of your team fill it out. Collect them all and mail them to us with your deposit check (one per team please) to confirm your registration. Teams are signing up for up to 6 months ahead of time, so please don’t delay. If you are signing up for more than a month prior to arrival you can send your deposit now and the balance a month before, with any additions. For further details please see our FAQ page.

We need volunteers/teams in these areas:

-RECOVERY and RESTORATION needed for Galveston and Beaumont, TX
-Continue 2005 Hurricane Recovery and Restoration
-Midwest Flooding Recovery 2008
-Anyone and everyone skilled in construction
-Evangelism teams
-First Response for any new natural disaster
-“VBS or other kid related activities for summer”.
-“Those skilled in counseling, especially related to issues concerning loss, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, the homeless and poor.”

If you are interested in forming a First Response team please let us know the following as soon as possible:

-How soon would you be able to respond
-How long will you be able to be mobilized
-What are your special skills
-How many are in your team
-Which geographical area(s) can you mobilize to

We need both skilled and unskilled people (if they are in good health and able to follow directions). Skilled people in areas of: plumbing, electrical, construction, mechanical, roofers, concrete, painting, big equipment, cooking, counseling, youth, children, business development, administration, fund raising, and grant writing.

We also are in need of long term volunteers.

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September 17, 2008 by citiimpact

IMPACT is in the midst of setting up a command base, volunteer center, and distribution site in Texas City, TX on Galveston Bay. This will allow us direct access to help residents when they return. This will be done in collaboration with other ministries, churches, networks and YOU the volunteers. The need is huge and it will take the Body of Christ working together to make an IMPACT.

TO Contact Us

JD Smith
Charlotte Metro Church
IMPACT Ministries

375 Robinson Rd
Mooresville, NC 28117

704-507-6579

info@citiimpact.org