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Planning for Pandemic Flu |
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Top Ten Ways to Prepare
Your Congregation for Pandemic
- Pray for people affected by disease
everywhere in the world, especially the bird flu.
- Don’t create panic as you prepare
- provide only realistic information about the threat of
pandemic.
- Create and improve alternate ways of
communicating with your congregation.
- Create or improve your congregation’s
Web page.
- Imagine worship being provided
through a number of different ways of communicating.
- Imagine pastoral care being provided
through a number of different ways of communicating.
- Learn about special pastoral care
needs during disaster and emergency. (www.elca.org/disaster/resources)
- Partner with nearby congregations to
share resources.
- Consider the special needs of the
most vulnerable people in your congregation and community.
- Reach out to community groups and
public health officials to offer your congregation as a resource.
Helpful
Links
The American Red Cross has provided the following
information about how to care for loved ones with the flu. (PDF)
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Widespread Flooding in the Midwest - ELCA
Disaster Alert reproducible bulletin insert
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(PDF
or
Word DOC))
U.S. Tornadoes - Spring 2008 - ELCA
Disaster Alert reproducible bulletin insert
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(PDF
or
Word DOC))
Myanmar Cyclone and World Food Crisis - ELCA
Disaster Alert reproducible bulletin insert
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(PDF
or
Word DOC)
International Disaster Alert: Bangladesh, Mexico,
Zimbabwe - ELCA Disaster Alert reproducible bulletin insert
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(PDF
or Word DOC)
Southern California wildfires - ELCA Disaster Alert reproducible bulletin insert
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(PDF
or Word DOC)
U.S. Summer Flooding - ELCA Disaster Alert reproducible bulletin insert
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(PDF
or Word DOC)
"A Season of Hope"
- Reproducible bulletin insert
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or Word DOC)
"Middle East Crisis" - ELCA
Disaster Alert reproducible bulletin insert
▪ English version (PDF
or Word DOC)
Downloadable Disaster Response graphics available for use in your
congregation. |
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Download
Lutherans Respond:
A progress report on the response to the 2005 hurricanes
Worship
and other resources related to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita for use in your
congregation and communities.
Go to
www.imageevent.com/4ldr to see and use, with noted photo credit,
Hurricane Katrina and Rita images. Contact ELCA Domestic
Disaster Response
communications if you have photos of Lutheran Disaster Response in
action that you are willing to share with others. |
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The earthquake, measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, struck under the sea
in north Sumatra, Indonesia. It was the strongest earthquake in the
world in 40 years.
Explore resources related to the 2004 tsunami in
Southeast Asia.
"Beyond Tsunami:
Lutherans Respond" - MOSAIC Television, a 30-minute VHS or
DVD. |
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"What a
Relief!" - Over Spring
Break '06, nearly 1,100 college students
participated in the first-ever Lutheran Disaster Response
alternative spring break. They
lived and worked for a week in locations all along the Gulf Coast as
part of the long-term recovery efforts from the 2005 hurricane season.
“Mama P”
- A video related to the 2004 Tsunami in southern Asia. |
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| ELCA Domestic Disaster Response and Lutheran Disaster
Response are seeking new ways to expand ministry in
your area.
Find out more about the application
procedures (and download the application) related to disaster
preparedness programming. |
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