Presbyterian Disaster Assistance

06/01/2026

June 1st marks the beginning of the 2026 hurricane season. Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is ready to provide support to our mid-councils, partners and communities.

Remember to prepare your emergency kit, develop an Action Plan, and be attentive to alerts and reports

Learn about how we work: https://pcusa.org/disaster-assistance/how-we-work
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El 1ro de junio marca el inicio de la temporada de huracanes en el 2026. La Asistencia Presbiteriana en Desastres está lista para proveer apoyo a nuestros concilios intermedios (Presbiterios y Sínodos), colaboradores y comunidades.

Recuerda preparar tu kit de emergencia, desarrollar un plan de acción, y estar atent@ a alertas e informes.

Conoce más sobre cómo trabajamos: https://pcusa.org/disaster-assistance/how-we-work

06/01/2026

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) recognizes the value and importance of amplifying voices and stories. Using film as a resource to increase awareness on social justice issues, Counter Stories Productions (PDA’s Story Ministry) seeks to connect and equip communities while cultivating wider circles of engagement and action. Learn more at pcusa.org/csp

05/28/2026

Our friends in the Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP) put together a great resource on Congregation-Based Community Organizing.
PHP believes congregation-based community organizing is a powerful avenue for congregations, communities, and other entities to collectively address systemic challenges for social change. Learn more at pcusa.org/cbco

05/27/2026

Learn how your gifts to PDA are making a real difference in the lives of many. Read our annual report at pcusa.org/mosaic

05/26/2026

Grateful for our partners in Louisville KY, and for all the communities hosting conversations around the issues of eviction and homelessness!

You can learn more about the 'Evicting the American Dream' documentary, including watching the trailer and downloading the resource guide, at: pcusa.org/evicting

A recent screening of “Evicting the American Dream” in Louisville, Kentucky, brought together a panel of community leaders and advocates to discuss the obstacles facing families at risk of homelessness and how to better support them. The 2025 documentary, which was shown prior to the panel discussion, explores the systems that lead to families being evicted and notes that being evicted can leave them with a scarlet letter ‘E’ on their records that can hinder their ability to get decent housing. Read more about the panel discussion here: https://hubs.ly/Q04h756r0


Americana Community Center, Inc.
Coalition for the Homeless
South Louisville Community Ministries
Grace Hope Presbyterian Church

05/26/2026

In this blog post, our partner in Cameroon Relufa- Reseau De Lutte Contre La Faim. shares Blossom's* story dealing with the effects of the armed conflict that has devastated the Northwest and Southwest Anglophone regions since 2017. Read more: https://www.relufa.org/programs/blossoms-distress-call-living-with-post-traumatic-stress/

*Blossom's real name is not used to protect her identity

05/21/2026

Flint River and Savannah Presbyteries recently sent a nine-person team representing six congregations to volunteer in Western North Carolina. They spent a week in Old Fort mudding, sanding, priming, and painting drywall in the home of a 96-year-old woman. For three team members, this was their first adult volunteer work trip. With much work still ahead, the team looks forward to continuing this meaningful partnership and hopes others will join future efforts.
“I enjoyed the coming together of different people to accomplish a worthwhile goal. I benefit by listening to other group members expressing their faith.” - John Prather, First Presbyterian, Savannah

Thank you to Flint River Presbytery, Savannah Presbytery and your congregations for your faithful support and dedication to those recovering from disasters!

05/20/2026

World Refugee Day is one month away! Join the global chorus of welcome. Online are resources to educate and advocate in addition to worship resources. pcusa.org/refugee

05/19/2026

For more than a decade, a humanitarian crisis has continued to unfold in the Far North region of Cameroon, leaving local communities in a prolonged state of vulnerability in terms of security, food, and nutrition. It is within this already difficult context that a devastating fire broke out on 7 February 2026 in the Ndaba camp for internally displaced persons, located in the Kolofata subdivision. Within a few hours, about 3,500 shelters were reduced to ashes, affecting nearly 1,000 households, or approximately 6,000 people.
Read more about how PDA is partnering with Relufa- Reseau De Lutte Contre La Faim. to respond: https://www.relufa.org/programs/the-network-for-the-fight-against-hunger-supports-disaster-victims-in-kolofata-far-north-region-of-cameroon/

05/15/2026

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance's Migration Accompaniment Ministries stands in solidarity with our immigrant community members being held unjustly in immigration detention centers across the country. We especially are in mourning with the families of those who have had loved ones die in immigration detention custody. Today we highlight Fairlington Presbyterian Church (Alexandra, VA) on their tribute to those who have been lost to immigration enforcement. We must pray and advocate for those who do not have a voice or are too afraid to come forward. We are thankful that congregations like Fairlington Presbyterian Church and many more Presbyterians who are standing in solidarity with their immigrant community members.

Read a statement from Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Stated Clerk, Rev. Jihyun Oh, mourning deaths in immigration detention: https://pcusa.org/news-storytelling/news/2026/5/13/reformed-witness-mourning-deaths-immigration-detention