UMCOR is using Advance #901670 for US Disaster Response for all disaster response within the United States and U.S. territories. You can earmark it for a specific disaster, but it may be better stewardship to leave it without earmarking so as to give UMCOR greater flexibility in responding to the needs that are emerging as time goes on. Advance #982450 for International Disaster Response for needs outside the US, such as Mexico and Central America earthquake relief and hurricane relief in Cuba and the Carribean.

UMCOR is recognized for its financial integrity and was recently added to the list of CNN's publicgood.com list of charities.

In addition, there are two Conference Advance Specials that also work in conjunction with UMCOR:

• Conference Advance #6620, Midwest Mission Distribution Center. MMDC is assembling and shipping flood buckets to the affected areas. You can designate your gift for this effort. Each bucket costs about $65 in supplies.
• Conference Advance #6800, Conference Disaster Response. In coordination with the MMDC, IGRC was able to ship more than 1,400 plastic totes to Texas to assist persons with gathering up items scattered by the storm. Totes were purchased from this fund and the need for more will be coming in the days and weeks ahead.