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Churches Chipping In To Relief Effort
posted (August 11, 2016)
And while CEMO and NEMO are doing their best to keep up with the community's needs - others are chipping in as well. We caught up with a group called the New Fire Ministry today and they told us about their initiative to distribute food hampers in concert with a church group from Arizona:...

Dennis Tillett, New Fire Ministries Belize
"We have to thank the almighty father first, the good lord, he has sent some people away to help us help out the people who are in real need, not the people that have, but the people that are in need. Its non-governmental, it's nonprofit, it's just some people from one of the ministries out of Alabama that came in and I'm apart of them. We're on the second phase of our relief by the way, you guys just came to us so I just want to say that we went out this morning and we really took care of a lot of people in the Jerusalem area. We're about to go in the Jane Usher area from here on, so the relief is on the way. we started off since yesterday about 9 o'clock yesterday morning, these people came in and they were assisting us with a little bit of finance and we went to purchase a couple of flour, some rice, beans, basic comedies that people need in their household."

Fitzroy Yearwood, New Fire Ministries Belize
"We have some friends from Alabama that say the desperate need for assistance in Belize and through New Fire Ministries, a church organized in Alabama, they quickly responded and told us that they would be here by yesterday, Wednesday. We picked them up, went and did some purchasing, this is our little work shed and we bought just basic commodities, put them together and we decided this morning to go and deliver. This afternoon we will have phase 2 of this same initiative where we will go in the Jane Usher Boulevard area and possibly on Queen's Charlotte. We realize that the need is tremendously warrantied and I applaud them for organizing themselves in such little time because we only made contact with them on Monday and they were here by Wednesday. Hopefully this will be the beginning of a partnership, this is no government related or any other organization this is just from a church effort."

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