Responding to 2005 Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma

Thanks to the volunteer work team from Gaithersburg Presbyterian Church for sharing this photo from their March 2009 trip to New Orleans.

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Hurricane Katrina: Four Years Later

Your support, through donations, volunteering, prayer, and partnership, has energized the work of helping the most vulnerable in the Gulf Coast area since Hurricane Katrina. [Read more]

Three years of faithful witness and relationships

A video showing how long-term relationships formed over the past three years continue to transform houses to homes and witness Christ’s love to survivors of the 2005 U.S. hurricanes is now available online and as part of the DVD titled "Three Years of Responding to Gulf Coast Hurricanes – Presbyterians’ Faithful Witness and Relationships Continue." Read more about the video and view it online or order your free copy.

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Reports and background information about the 2005 hurricane response.

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Presbyterian News Service stories

• Hope restored — Presbyterian Community Outreach rebuilds homes, restores faith
• Turning things around — Project Homecoming helps rebuild homes in New Orleans
• Monday mornings with a mission — Olive Tree village gears up volunteers for a week in the Gulf
• Taking a bite out of the elephant — Presbyterians, Methodists join to continue rebuilding in southwest Louisiana
• Creature comforts — Louisiana congregation, complete with stuffed animals, welcomes volunteers to PDA village in Houma
• PDA volunteer village near New Orleans closes — Luling camp that housed 3,500 makes room for one closer to city

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