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Disaster Relief

Every year, people around the world struggle to survive when disaster strikes. Whether it’s a natural disaster such as a hurricane, tornado, earthquake or tsunami, or refugees in the midst of life-threatening conflict needing critical relief, Operation Blessing is helping disaster victims endure and recover by providing critical aid.

BLESS DISASTER AND CRISIS SURVIVORS TODAY

TEXAS- More than 120 people are dead and over 100 missing after a flood early July 4th, morning caused the Guadalupe River to raise over 20 feet in less than an hour. Kerr County was hit the hardest, confirming 104 deaths of which around 28 were children. 

Operation Blessing’s Global Response team is on the ground delivering meals and meal kits to the hardest hit areas and partnering with local churches to deliver aid to victims. Operation Blessing is also helping first responders with supplies. While we are already on the ground delivering care, we cannot do this alone. We ask for your support and prayers for all those affected and for our team. 

MEXICO– A severe Category 3 hurricane slammed into Mexico’s Oaxaca state June 19th, with winds of 125 mph swirling around its center eye. Hurricane Erick underwent rapid intensification and maxed out as a Category 4 storm, with heavy rain creating gushing rivers into Oaxaca and neighboring Guerrero. Mexican authorities reported landslides, blocked highways, downed power lines and flooding.

With your assistance, Operation Blessing is on the ground helping those with damage to the hardest hit and rural areas where there are fewer resources. There, they are seeing a great need for materials to repair the roofs of roughly 130 homes damaged by the hurricane. We are working to provide roofing materials to these hard hit areas. Please continue to pray for our team and those affected by Hurricane Erick.

NORTH CAROLINA – Our team has been on the ground in North Carolina since Category 4 Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction across the region—especially Asheville. After supplying immediate emergency aid, Operation Blessing teams have since been helping suffering families recover through long-term rebuilding and income restoration. Thanks to friends like you, hope is on the rise!

Join the effort! You can make a difference in the lives of the hurting in the wake of disaster. Your compassion brings hope and help in their darkest hours.

Help Disaster Victims!

When disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, or other humanitarian crises strike, YOU are there to show hurting people God’s love with immediate relief and long-term recovery.

Operation Blessing partners, staff, and disaster relief volunteers are the first on the ground, partnering with emergency management and local churches to bring food, clean water, medicine and other vital supplies to meet the immediate needs of those suffering.

Then, after others have left, YOU continue to help with the long-term disaster recovery process. Teams of Operation Blessing disaster relief staff and volunteers assist with debris clean up and repairs, as well as providing microenterprise and small business support to help recover jobs and get families back on their feet. Last year, you enabled us to respond to 16 disasters in the U.S. and abroad. Within these past few years, we have also responded to a number of devastating hurricanes including Hurricane Ian, Fiona, Laura, Delta, and Helene. In Operation Blessing’s 2023 fiscal year, you helped us respond worldwide during times of war and political conflict, hurricane and tornado season, famine, flooding, typhoons, earthquakes, and wildfires.

Thanks to faithful friends like you, Operation Blessing is on the cutting edge of disaster response, providing both immediate and long-term relief for people facing crisis and disaster. With unmatched experience working with emergency management, law enforcement, and local churches, Operation Blessing is a disaster relief organization that’s able to provide the greatest impact quickly and efficiently. Whether it’s a historic hurricane like Katrina, an earthquake in Turkey, war in the Ukraine, a flood in West Virginia, fires in Hawaii, or a tornado in Alabama, Operation Blessing is there for those in need.

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Disaster Relief Testimonials

“When people were hungry, Operation Blessing provided … hot meals… when emergency staff were stressed and tired, Operation Blessing was there with care and compassion…” – Mary J. Sutton, FEMA VAL, New Orleans, LA

“Thank you for your quick and heartfelt support to our community after the tornado last month… You responded to our need in a prompt, courteous, and loving way… Together we were able to minister to those in need and we are grateful for the generosity.” – Pastor Tony Peaks, Senior Pastor, Open Door Church, Suffolk, VA

“Operation Blessing came in self-contained, ready to work, and had excellent logistics… I cannot begin to adequately express my thanks for the efforts you, your staff, and organization provided the citizens of Vigo County and my staff.” – Dorene G. Hojnicki, Director, Virgo County, IN Emergency Management

OUR IMPACT

FY 2024 STATS

11 DIFFERENT TYPES
OF DISASTERS

32 TOTAL RESPONSES
IN 13 COUNTRIES

18 DISASTERS
ACROSS 12 U.S. STATES

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