OSLC maintains one of two NALC Disaster Relief Warehouses in Texas. Our Warehouse responds to natural disasters over a large area of the south. 2024 has been a very busy year for us, with multiple disasters, including hurricane Helene, which is one of the most devastating natural disasters in decades. This area of North Carolina, which does not normally experience serious flooding, saw unprecedented rainfall and catastrophic flooding. Thousands experienced devastating flooding without flood insurance. The NALC has sent 24 truckloads of emergency supplies to 24 counties and
have already sent 4 mission teams to the area to help rebuild homes with multiple teams already scheduled for 2025.
In the last year our warehouse has sent truck loads of disaster relief supplies to:
The Texas Panhandle fires,
Tornadoes in Arkansas,
Hurricane Milton in Florida, and
Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.
In between each of these relief missions we have worked hard to restock our warehouse. Often this involves restocking trips to the Rosenberg, TX warehouse near Houston.
In addition, our youth group and others held a Health Kit build and in November and we held a Clean-up Bucket build.
We are so blessed to have tremendous support from our congregation to make all this happen. We have always had a good number of members volunteering whenever we needed to load or unload a truck, drive a truck to a disaster site, or turn out for our emergency relief kit builds. A very big thank you goes out to all of you who always turn out to support this important ministry and especially to the Quilters who supply quilts and regularly assist with every aspect of this ministry. We are also very appreciative of the Social Ministry Committee’s financial support. None of this could happen without your support!
