SOME STUNNING STATISTICS ABOUT THE RELIEF EFFORT

• 2300 teams, representing 33,000 volunteers have been scheduled through the Mississippi Conference Disaster Call Center to the Mississippi Gulf Coast since September 1, 2005.
   

• 34 local churches and 3 UM Disaster Response camp sites have hosted the volunteers in Mississippi.
   

• 1,000,000 labor hours have been accumulated by volunteers working an average of 30 hours.
   

• $18,000,000 in homeowners' savings was provided by volunteers. (This figure comes from the labor hours above using accepted statistics from the non-profit sector.)
   

• Volunteers have come from across the United States and some foreign countries. Hundreds, possibly thousands of them making long-term commitments.

Even more amazing is that these figures represent just the United Methodist Effort in Mississippi. UMCOR has ongoing efforts in Louisiana, Texas and other affected Gulf States. AND... other faith based groups including Presbyterian, Mennonite, Lutheran and many others are responding with similar efforts.