1. July 21, 2013 – July 25, 2013
Moore, Oklahoma Mission Trip

2. Overseen By: Elders of Melbourne
Church of Christ
810 Hollywood Blvd.
West Melbourne, Fl. 32904

3. DRT Founded
After 12 years of disaster relief
experience, The Churches of Christ Disaster
Response Team was founded in June, 2004 by
Mark and Laura Cremeans.

4. HOW DRT HELPS CONGREGATIONS IN
DISASTER AREAS
 Trained Coordinators to help with (5) Phase
Disaster Recovery – Meals, Distribution, Clean
Up, Rebuilding, Counseling/Evangelism
 Mobile Kitchen/purchasing, cooking and
serving food to the communities
 Fully Stocked Tool Trailers

5.  Shower Trailer
 Database of Volunteers, including
evangelistic teams
 Provides housing, meals and work for
volunteers.
 Helps to purchase building material for those
without/under insured.
 Supply Trailer

6. ONE OF THE DRT TOOL TRAILERS

7. MOBILE KITCHEN
• Can serve 3,000 – 4,000 meals per day.

9. THE DRT SHOWER TRAILER
SHOWER TRAILER

10. SUPPLY TRAILER

11. Some of the locations
Has Helped in the Past

12. Greensburg, Kansas
Tornado - May 4, 2007
• DRT worked with the Mullinville Church of Christ following the tornado
95% of Greensburg was destroyed

13. Finley, Ohio
Flood - August, 2007
• DRT worked with the Bright Road Church of Christ
Hundreds of homes suffered flood damage

14. San Diego County, California
Wildfires November, 2007
• DRT worked with several congregations from the area;
mainly: Canyon View Church of Christ and L Street Church of Christ
DRT setup it’s own Tent City and support units 30 miles from the nearest city

15. Bridge City, TX
Hurricane Ike – September 13, 2008
• DRT helped the following congregations
following the Hurricane Ike disaster.
– Bridge City Church of Christ, Bridge City, TX
– 9th & Elm Church of Christ, Orange, TX
– Anahuac Church of Christ, Anahuac, TX
– Broadway Church of Christ, Galveston, TX
– Ridgewood Church of Christ, Beaumont, TX

20. At Bridge City, TX Church of Christ volunteers help assist residents with disaster assistance
applications and clothing needs. Matthew 25:36 “I needed clothes and you clothed me”

23. Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tornado – April 27,2011
• DRT worked with the University, Central & Northport Churches of Christ
The Central Church of Christ’s building was completely destroyed

25. Joplin, Missouri
Tornado – May 22, 2011
• DRT worked with the Mt. Hope and 26th & Connecticut Churches of Christ
An EF5 Tornado, a mile wide and 7 miles long

30. Live Oak, Florida
Flood and Sinkholes, June 26, 2012
• DRT worked with the Live Oak Church of Christ

34. New Jersey Shore
Hurricane Sandy October 29, 2012
• DRT worked with the Monmouth and Gateway Churches of Christ

36. Moore, Oklahoma
Tornado, May 20, 2013
• DRT is working with the Alameda Church of Christ in Norman, OK
Thousands of Homes and 2 schools were leveled by an EF5 Tornado

67. Colossians 3:1-4 ESV
1 If then you have been raises with Christ seek the things that are above, where
Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not
on things that are on the earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in
God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears then you also will appear with him in glory.
Colossians 3:12-17 ESV
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen one’s, holy and beloved, compassionate
hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if
one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other, as the Lord has forgiven
you, so you must also forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds
everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your
hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of
Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And
whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving
thanks to God the Father through him.