Churches on Fire International Annual Conference

1. Churches on Fire InternationalAnnual Conference May 21-23, 2010

2. PARTNERING WITH NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS (NGO) • Benefits: • Common Mission – Serving others & meeting needs through the love of Christ • Sharing of Resources (Synergy) • Manpower • Material • Expertise • Training • Flexibility to tailor the partnership for level of involvement

3. Active Community Teams Servicing

4. PARTNERING WITH NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS (NGO) • Active Community Teams Servicing • ACTS is unique in their means of providing humanitarian services. Specializing in training high school and college age young adults in the United States as well as abroad to empower others in “Growing Through the Gospel of Serving.” They add to that a balance of an equal amount of adult “First Response Teams” and local community volunteers as a way to unite our communities in help, hope and healing! • Mission Statement“Providing leadership to empower youth volunteers in serving as a way of sharing the love of God, especially during times of disaster.” • Motto “Empowering Youth in Serving.” • Vision • “Integrating Youth Into Nation Building.”

5. PARTNERING WITH NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS (NGO) • ACTS World Relief has the organization and operational structure to enable Churches of all sizes to participate on a Local, National or International level for Disaster Response, Community Care, Spiritual Care and Mental Health Care.

6. PARTNERING WITH NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS (NGO) Response Equipment

7. PARTNERING WITH NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS (NGO) Mobile Kitchen

8. PARTNERING WITH NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS (NGO) Training

9. Partnership in Practice

10. Partnership in Practice • Background: • Northland started a disaster relief outreach as a result of Hurricane Katrina. • Recognized lacking in two key areas • Training • Relationships with local and state agencies • Met David Canther and recognized that ACTS WR provided resources that complimented Northland’s assets, goals and abilities. • A partnership was established developing a MOU – outlining how we would work together on a foundation of trust and faith.

11. Partnership in Practice • Current Status: • Northland is actively serving with ACTS WR in local and global deployments with volunteers from the following teams: • Emotional and Spiritual Team • Community Care Team • Medical Care Team • Kitchen and Food Prep Team • Transportation and Maintenance Team • An integrated team returned from deployment to Haiti on May 1st after participating in the ACTS Train-The-Trainer program utilizing local Haitian men and women.

12. Partnership in Practice Emotional & Spiritual Care

13. Partnership in Practice Medical & Community Care

14. Partnership in Practice Train – The - Trainer

15. CERT Community Emergency Response Team

16. COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (CERT) • About: FEMA • CitizenCorps • CERT • Educates and certifies in disaster preparedness • Fire Safety • Search & Rescue • Disaster Medical Operations • Team Organization • 224 Locations in the State of Florida

17. COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (CERT) Disaster Response Search & Rescue Medical Ops Command Post