1500 Leestown Road, Suite 108 | Lexington, Kentucky 40511 | (859) 269-7715 | Fax (859) 269-1240 | www.kycouncilofchurches.org
We
thank you for your prayers, your gifts, and your service.
Please continue to pray and note the following opportunities for
service.
1. The greatest
need is for cash donations to reputable relief organizations.
Call (800) 297-1516, ext. 222 to donate
(or see list below for additional places to donate).
2. Volunteers should not report directly to the affected areas
unless directed by a voluntary agency. Self-dispatched volunteers
can put themselves and others in harm’s way and hamper rescue
efforts. Voluntary organizations are seeking cash donations to
assist victims
of Hurricane Katrina in Gulf Coast states. Call 1-800-440-6728
if you wish to volunteer
your service or donate items to the relief effort.
3. Only specific items are being collected by the KY Emergency
Management program in four warehouses around the state. (See list
below.) Donate only these items at these locations. If you have received appeals
from UMCOR, PDA, EDR, or others with specific instructions regarding
food, blankets or water, please take those to the locations specified
by those organizations. They do not need water, ice, clothes,
furniture, or food at the collection sites listed below. If
you have collected items they do not need we ask that you hold
onto them because any victims who come to Kentucky will very likely
need them in their temporary housing. Food items should be taken
to your local food bank, not the relief collection warehouses
listed below.
4. We do not know at this time how many guests Kentucky
will receive as a result of this disaster. Please contact your
nearest Red Cross office if your Church facility is not already
certified to serve as an emergency shelter. (Minimum requirements
include wheelchairs accessibile sleeping areas, fire escapes and
and showers.) The goal is to help these guests get into stable
and individualized housing and care as quickly as possible, but
if we receive a large number of guests at one time, there will
be a need for emergency shelters. Please inform your local mayor's
office once your facility is certified by the Red Cross to serve
as an emergency shelter. You may view a flow-chart of contact
information here that will help direct you to the appropriate
telephone number to call regarding the housing of evacuees and
victims.
A facilitated Relocation Program has been established to assist
with travel needs of those applicants who have been separated
from family members and/or homes as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
If you receive a call from a Katrina applicant needing travel
to:
Travel from a shelter
to a family/friend situation for at least 90 days,
Travel to a ready for occupancy housing resource,
Travel home to their point of origin,
Re-unite with a family member at a shelter.
Please refer the individual to the following toll free #: 866-586-5257.
Currently the hours of operation are 7:00am-9:00pm CST.
5. The
Kentucky Division of Emergency Management has distributed the
following list of designated locations established throughout
Kentucky to accept donated goods for the Hurricane Katrina Relief
Effort. Please do NOT take food (of any kind), water (in
any form) or any clothing (other than listed below), to these
locations. Again please bring only what is listed
below and do NOT bring food or water. Hours
of operation for each location will be 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.,
starting Monday, September 5, 2005.
ONLY the following items are needed for each Personal Comfort
Kit.
We need a large quantity of each!
The following locations will open Monday morning, September 5,
2005 at 9:00 a.m., to receive donations:
Louisville (M-Sat.
10-5:30)
(Closing September 24)
Salvation Army
6705 Preston Highway
Louisville, KY 40219
Lexington (M-F 9-7, Sat 10-5, Sun by appt.)
United Way
921 Beasley Street
Lexington, KY 40509
Corbin (M-F 9-5)
Christian Appalachian Project
441 Ky 2417 North
Corbin, KY 40701
Northern Kentucky
Mathew 25
11060 Kenwood
Cincinnati, OH 45242
Bowling Green (Daily 9-7)
2361 Louisville Road, Warehouse 3
(Brannen’s Warehouse)
Bowling Green, KY 42102
Paducah (Tuesday thru Sunday 9-7)
Old Coca Cola Plant
3141 Broadway
Paducah, KY 42001
Ashland (Daily 9-7)
2432 Carter Avenue
Ashland, KY 41101
Madisonville
Madisonville Elks Lodge #738
875 Princeton Road
Madisonville, KY 42431
If you have other items you
wish to donate,
please check with your local food or clothing bank. If you wish
to donate to Project
Backpack please call Cynthia Cain & daughter Marjorie
Amon at (859)313-5337.
Or, if you have an offer of
goods or services, you may call the FEMA hotline at 1-800-440-6728.
A representative will take your name and information on how to
contact you, as well as what type of goods or services you wish
to donate. Donation offers may include temporary housing for disaster
victims, vehicles, construction equipment, food, clothing, or
other offers that may assist those displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Please note: the FEMA hotline is for donations only. For more
information on doing business with FEMA, please visit their website
at www.fema.gov/ofm, or contact FEMA’s acquisition voice
message system at (202) 646-4006.
If you wish
to volunteer:
We commend all Americans who are willing to assist their fellow
citizens in this time of need, and we express our deepest gratitude
to those from other nations wishing to aid us in the wake of this
disaster. The KCC office has already received calls from around
the nation and emails from around the world. On September 2, 2005,
FEMA established a toll-free 800 number, 1-800-440-6728,
to accept the generous offers to assist the victims of Hurricane
Katrina. The Department of Homeland Security has set up a Web
site for similar reasons. If you have resources to donate or sell
to the response agencies, please register those items in the National
Emergency Resource Registry, accessible at: www.SWERN.gov.
The response agencies will be checking this directory as the need
for materials and services become known.
There are
also needs for volunteers to staff the KY donation warehouses
and the Frankfort donation hotline. Those wishing to donate
their time or services should call the KY Emergency Management
Donation Hotline at 1-800-618-1689. Due to the overwhelming
response the line may be busy, so please call back. You
may also call this number if you can provide tractor trailers,
truckers, Red Cross certified facilities to house refugees, or
other offerings.
If
you wish to donate temporary housing to victims of hurricane Katrina,
please call the number above or you may contact your local
mayor' office for the phone number of your county's Local Emergency
Management organization. Do not send teams south
that are not affiliated with a coordinated relief effort.
To Support Displaced Persons in Fayette County
Contact the Central Kentucky Housing and Homeless Inititative or the Community Action Council by calling the offices of the United Way at 859-313-5465. For the latest Fayette County update click here.
To Support Displaced Persons in Jefferson County
The Louisville
Metro Government is seeking vacant rental property only, at free
or discounted rates. At this point, agencies are not seeking offers
of housing in private homes that are already inhabited. Call MetroCall
311 or (502) 574-5000 if you or your Church can make such an offer.
Also, Churches that want to ‘sponsor’ a displaced family
from Hurricane Katrina by providing short-term assistance with
rent, utilities, groceries and other expenses should contact MetroCall
to be listed as potential sponsors. Interested sponsors will be
contacted as the need arises for assistance to displaced families.
Call (502) 574-5000 and tell them how many persons your local
congregation can sponsor and to what extent.
The BEST way to help:
Cash donations to disaster
response organizations are still the preferred form of support. The Kentucky Council of Churches' KY Interchurch
Disaster Recovery Program recommends that you dontate
cash through the Louisiana Interchurch Conference (LIC), Church
World Service (CWS), or your own
denomination's disaster
relief and recovery efforts.
Support relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina by making
direct contributions to:
Louisiana Interchurch Conference
The Rev. C. Dan Krutz
527 North Boulevard, 4th Floor
Baton Rouge, LA 70802
or
Church World Service
Hurricane Katrina Response -- #6280
P.O. Box 968
Elkhart, IN 46515
CWS accepts credit card contributions at (800)
297-1516, ext. 222, and through a secure
online contribution site.
NOTE: After 9/1, any donation made to Church
World Service using an American Express credit card will be matched
by American Express dollar for dollar if you designate your
contribution for Hurricane Katrina relief.
The additional links
below may be helpful for you and others in your community who
are seeking to contribute.
Please
check with your tax advisor or the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
for more information regarding the tax deductibility of your donation.
The listing of or omission of an institution or organization on
this Web site does not refer to programmatic capability nor does
it confer any official status, approval, or endorsement of the
institution or organization itself. This listing does not purport
to be a listing of all organizations that are providing relief
in the affected area. Additionally, there may be organizations
providing relief in the affected area that are not accepting donations
at this time. It is not the purpose of this Web site to make,
or enable to be made, any representation to the public concerning
the organizations listed. This listing is for informational purposes
only. Any contributions you choose to make from links on this
Web site are at your sole discretion.
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American
Red Cross Adventist
Community Services African
Methodist Episcopal Church American
Baptist Churches USA AmeriCares America's
Second Harvest Baptist
World Aid B'nai
B'rith Disaster Relief Fund Bush-Clinton
Katrina Fund Catholic
Charities USA Christian
Church, Disciples of Christ Christian
Contractors Association Christian
Disaster Response Christian
Methodist Episcopal Church Church
of the Brethren
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Church
World Service Cooperative
Baptist Fellowship Episcopal
Relief and Development Feed
the Children Greek
Orthodox Church in America Habitat
for Humanity International Humane
Society of the United States (Louisiana Chapter) Islamic
Circle of North America Islamic
Relief Islamic
Society of North America Louisiana
Interchurch Conference Lutheran
Disaster Response Mennonite
Disaster Service Mercy
Corps Military
OneSource
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NAACP Nazarene
Disaster Response PRC
Compassion Presbyterian
Disaster Assistance Project
Backpack Southern
Baptist Convention -- Disaster Relief Union
for Reform Judaism United
Church of Christ United
Jewish Communities United
Methodist Committee on Relief United
Way
Please check with your tax advisor or the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for more information regarding the tax deductibility of your donation. The inclusion or omission of an institution or organization on this list does not refer to programmatic capability nor does it confer any official status, approval, or endorsement of the institution or organization itself. This listing does not purport to be a listing of all organizations that are providing relief in the affected area. Additionally, there may be organizations providing relief in the affected area that are not accepting donations at this time. It is not the purpose of this communication to make, or enable to be made, any representation to the public concerning the organizations listed. This listing is for informational purposes only. Any contributions you choose to make are at your sole discretion. The inclusion of a group in the list above does NOT imply that any named organizanization is sponsoring this event on September 11, 2005. |
And you can schedule a group viewing of the Internet broadcast
of A National Interfaith Effort To Aid the
Victims of Hurricane Katrina
At 3:00 PM EDT on Sunday,
September 11, Central Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky hosted
"Compassion Sunday" -- a multi-faith service to be taped
and broadcast via the Internet the next week to congregations
across the country, and into the homes of Americans concerned
about the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The broadcast will include
speeches by national religious leaders from many of the faith
traditions which have made the United States so great, including:
The
Rev. Dr. Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr. of Shreveport, Louisiana is
the Presiding Bishop of the Fourth Episcopal District of the Christian
Methodist Episcopal Church. He serves as the current President
of the National Council of Christ in the USA, whose 36 Protestant,
Anglican, and Orthodox member communions comprise some 140,000
congregations and 50 million congregants. In addition to serving
as the Chair of the General Assembly of Church World Service,
Bishop Hoyt also currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the National
Board of Directors of the National Conference for Community and
Justice, and as president of the North American Region of the
World Methodist Council. He is the author of three books on New
Testament themes, co-author of three other books, and contributor
to many more. He was one of two senior editors for the American
Bible Society’s 1999 Jubilee Bible, and he worked on The
New Testament and Psalms: An Inclusive Version, sponsored by Oxford
Press. He also has written more than 40 articles for academic
and church publications.
The Rev. Dr. Nancy Jo Kemper is pastor of New Union Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Woodford County, Kentucky and is the Executive Director of the Kentucky Council of Churches, a body of more than 800,000 Roman Catholic and Protestant members. Dr. Kemper has served as the minister of congregations of the United Church of Christ in locations across the Midwest. A graduate of Transylvania University and Yale University Divinity School, she was ordained by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and has held ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ since 1968. Dr. Kemper has received many honors including being named the Humanitarian of the Year by the Kentucky chapter of the NCCJ.
Dr. Marc Kline is renowned
for his scholarship, interfaith work, and dedication to tikkun
olam. Rabbi Kline serves Temple Adath Israel, a Reform congregation
in Lexington, Kentucky that is more than one hundred years old.
A native of Las Vegas, Rabbi Kline attended Tulane University
in New Orleans and the University of Arkansas Law School in Little
Rock, Arkansas. Rabbi Kline left a successful law practice in
Arkansas in 1990 to study the Torah. After graduating from Hebrew
Union College in Cincinnati in 1995, he served as rabbi at Temple
Beth Israel in Florence, South Carolina until coming to Temple
Adath in 2003.
Dr. Avinash Sathaye of the Bharatiya Temple & Cultural
Center is Secretary of the World Association of Vedic Studies.
He has chaired sessions on Studies in Hinduism during the International
Congress of Vedanta, the premier meeting of North American scholars
specializing in all aspects of Indian philosophy and religion.
Dr. Sathaye is also for a Professor of Sanskrit and serves as
the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the University Department
of Mathematics.
Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed obtained his Ph.D. in Sociolinguistics from the Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana, in 1984. As President of the Muslim Students Association of USA & Canada he pioneered its transformation into the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). During 1984-1988, he was Secretary General of the International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations (IIFSO) in which capacity he traveled widely through the former Soviet Union, and Europe, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and South America. Dr. Syeed, one of the founders of the quarterly American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences served for a decade as AJISS Editor-in-Chief. Dr. Syeed has served as the General Secretary of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists and currently serves on the Board of Advisory Editors for the Middle East Affairs Journal and the Board of Advisors for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. In his present position as Secretary General of the Islamic Society of North America-- a national umbrella organization which has more than 300 affiliates all over the U.S. and Canada-- Dr. Syeed is also chairman of the Editorial Board of Islamic Horizons. Among the many honors he has received, Dr. Syeed was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for distinguished service in furthering the Islamic tradition in North America and for promoting inter-religious understanding and harmony from the Catholic Heritage Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky on November 18, 2001.
Please bookmark the Internet broadcast site, www.thecompassionatecommunity.com, today-- and distribute the Action Agenda as widely as you can.
Compassion Sunday will feature the national response of America's many religions to the Hurricane Katrina disaster, a telecast that will be an interfaith event, to show how compassion builds bridges to hope and understanding, forging a unity that we desperately need in this nation, and giving aid to our neighbors.
During this broadcast, information on charities and organizations which are helping provide relief to hurricane victims will be provided, and participants will be urged to support these relief efforts. An Action Agenda for relief efforts will also be provided to churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples across the country to be distributed to their congregations during their traditional Sabbath services this weekend. The Action Agenda is available at and in pdf form at www.kycouncilofchurches.org/Katrina/ActionAgenda.pdf and also in html form at http://www.kycouncilofchurches.org/Katrina/CompassionSunday.html.
A Link to the nationwide Internet broadcast IS AVAILABLE NOW, online at http://www.kycouncilofchurches.org/Katrina/CompassionSunday.html. Congregations and individuals who are interested in being notified aabout future events like this can join the email list-serve at http://capwiz.com/kychurches/mlm/signup/.
Thank you!