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St Mark's United Methodist Church
Red Cross Shelter Service
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St Mark’s, with our Community Life Center, is a Red Cross Shelter facility. In the event of a local community disaster, the Richmond Red Cross Chapter may call upon St Mark's to open our CLC as a shelter for local residents. St Mark’s has a group of people who are trained to open and operate the CLC as a Red Cross Disaster Shelter. Serving our community in a time of such need is indeed extending God's love when most needed.
Operating a CLC as a shelter is in many ways similar to operating the CLC for CARITAS or IMPACT RICHMOND. Community members will come to our church and St Mark’s provides a temporary and safe housing environment and meals. All those gifts we use for CARITAS and IMPACT RICHMOND are again applied to this mission.
Please pray to serve this mission. The time requirement is about 8 hours for initial training on Shelter Operations and then 2 evening meetings a year. For more information please contact Steve Astoria, Ann Yamada, John Speer.
