Alternative Gift Market Cards

For the first time, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is making alternative gift market cards available for purchase. This is in response to requests for such an item over the years and for specific requests received at the recent Mission Celebration '07. Proceeds from each of the four cards pictured will be put into an account designated for the particular disaster response. These disaster responses were chosen because of their magnitude or ongoing needs.

Purchase of these cards will help to provide:

• Clean water by providing water containers or jerry cans in various international countries. Price $12
• Bicycles to carry multiple heavy containers of water, thus affording girls more opportunity to attend school in Kenya.
  Price $20
• Building supplies for repairing or rebuilding homes in the Gulf Coast. Price $50
• Community tool kits for repairing rooves, cleaning communal spaces and agricultural plots and rebuilding houses in Nicaragua. Price $250

Cards can be requested for use at your alternative gift market or mission fair by sending an email to PDA.

This $12 card provides a jerry can to carry water; DR999999. Photo: Paul Jeffrey

Jerry Can

Water is essential to life. When a disaster or circumstances make it impossible to access a nearby source of water, water containers (or jerry cans) provide families with a way to carry clean water for drinking and cooking.

O come let us adore Him.

A gift of love has been sent in your name to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance. This gift will help provide clean water for families.

May the knowledge of this gift and God’s gift of love fill you with peace during this special season and in the New Year to come.

This $50 card provides building materials such as 25 two-by-four wall studs; DR000174. Photo: Joe Williams

Rebuilding Supplies

More than 30,000 Presbyterian volunteers have generously given of themselves, working tirelessly to clean out and repair homes that were ravaged by the wind and waters from Hurricane Katrina.

As we move into the third year of recovery efforts, more homes are ready for skilled repairs and rebuilding. Thanks be to God for electricians, plumbers, carpenters and other volunteers who continue to serve hurricane survivors. Gifts for building materials help these faithful servants have the supplies they need to continue rebuilding — making the dream of returning home a reality for many more hurricane survivors.

O come let us adore Him.

A gift of love has been sent in your name to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance. This gift will help rebuild homes in the Gulf Coast.

This $250 card provides a community tool kit; DR000139. Photo: Paul Jeffrey

Community Tool Kit

In September 2007, Hurricane Felix, the third strongest hurricane to hit Central America, struck Nicaragua.

80 percent of the populations in the rural areas of the Northern Atlantic Autonomous Region, a Miskito resettlement region, were affected.

PDA is providing communities with a basic tool kit for debris removal, roof repairs and other community work such as cleaning communal spaces and agricultural plots and rebuilding houses.

A basic tool kit includes shovels, mattocks, wheelbarrows, pickaxes, machetes and chainsaws.

O come let us adore Him.

A gift of love has been sent in your name to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.

This gift will help rebuild communities in Central America affected by Hurricane Felix.