LA Conference of the UMC Disaster Response, Inc. Teamwork: Rebuilding Lives and Rebuilding Homes

LA Conference of the UMC Disaster Response, Inc. (LCUMCDR)

Funded by a grant from the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), the Louisiana United Methodist Disaster Response Ministry was established in September, 2005, in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. UMCOR is an international humanitarian aid organization that operates under the umbrella of the United Methodist Church (UMC).

Following Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, UMCOR collected $65 million from the people of the United Methodist Church and the general public to be granted to several United Methodist conferences along the Gulf Coast for the purpose of hurricane recovery. Our Louisiana Conference UMC was among those recipients.

Almost immediately, the Louisiana Conference set up disaster response operations, placing executive staff at the Louisiana Conference office in Baton Rouge and establishing six stations of operations along the Louisiana Gulf Coast in Lake Charles, Abbeville, Slidell, and three locations in Greater New Orleans.

Functioning as the LA Conference of the UMC Disaster Response, Inc. (LCUMCDR) we have consolidated into four stations of operations (listed from west to east):

Lake Charles Station in Lake Charles, serving southwestern Louisiana
Abbeville Station in Vermilion Parish, serving the Acadiana region
Dulac Station in Terrebonne Parish, serving the Dulac community and the surrounding area
Southeast Center in New Orleans east, serving Greater New Orleans and the North Shore area

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