Disaster Response Training

Tomorrow, I (Sean) am heading off for a couple weeks of training in Pennsylvania. Mike and I are flying up to Atlanta, and then on the Pittsburgh to go through a crash course on responding to disasters.

One of Mission to the World’s many ministries is called Disaster Response Ministry. This group sends trained professionals and missionaries all around the world in the days, weeks, and months following a disaster. They go to serve the missionaries already working on the field, and seek to aid those most in need and affected by the disaster (flood, hurricane, tsunami, etc.)

We’ll be spending part of the week in a class room setting, and part of the week camping and simulating life after a disaster. The course is filled with practical tools to serve, help, and survive with few or no resources, except those things we pack in.

It will be a full week of traveling and training, but hopefully well worth it to be able to serve in this ministry, especially in Honduras and Central America. Of course the downside is being away from Lins and the girls for so long, but they have Grandma coming in to visit, so they’ll hardly even notice I am gone!