What can your church or organization do in advance to support emergency preparedness? 

• Prepare your church or organization.  Develop and practice an evacuation plan for your facility.  Develop a continuity of operations plan for your organization.

• Business Continuity Worksheet

• Reciprocal Arrangement

• Business Continuity Presentation

• Prepare your members to be on their own for at least 3 days.

• Request an emergency preparedness workshop

• Have a Standard Plug-in Telephone

• Message from Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd

• Crisis Counseling

• Prepare Yourself

• Prepare in a Year Program (2010 Newsletters)

• January-March

• April

• May-June

• July-August

• September-October

• November-December

• Make and distribute preparedness kits for low income members.  For a list of resources, click here.

• Train congregation members to utilize Amateur Radio.

• Use prayer circles and phone trees to do wellness checks on vulnerable members after a disaster or storm.  Take this one step further-have a plan to go in person to check on your most vulnerable members if phone services have been out for a prolonged period of time. 

• Sign up to be an American Red Cross Shelter location.  Contact the local American Red Cross office at 360-352-8575 for more information.

• Sign up to be a staging area for Search & Rescue operations.