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Foursquare Disaster Relief (FDR) is excited to present to you, partnering with Heights Church and Spokane at River City Church 712 W Nora Avenue, WA Disaster relief training. The Heights Church would like to invite you and your congregation to join us as we host this year’s event on November 11-12, 2016.

Recently, FDR has had an active presence in local disaster relief all across the U.S to include fires in Tonasket and the mudslide near Seattle. As recently as last year, chaplains and volunteers have helped with U.S.

• U.S. West Coast:  Wildfires FDR gave counseling, food gift cards and shelter to displaced families.
• Middle East: As refugees flees violence in Syria and Northern Iraq, FDR has delivered food, blankets, Bibles, shelter and stove tent pipes to refugees in Turkey and Albania.
• Nepal: Earthquakes, Philippines:  Typhoon Haiyan,
• United States:  Shootings.  Foursquare people cared for those affected by shootings in Florida and Oregon, utilizing FDR-let, FEMA approved Training.

Foursquare Disaster Relief and The Heights Church is offering this Disaster Relief Training as a 16 hour class broken down over 2 days. This seminar will help to qualify Foursquare pastors, leaders, and church members to become first responders in local, regional, national or even global crisis situations. The cost for this kind of special training is typically upwards of $200.00; but through this two day event only, it is being offered at a discounted Early Bird price of only $75.00 from now through October 21 and at only $90.00 for general admission when enrolled from October 22 until the time of the event.

Attendees will walk away from the 16 hour class with confidence in their role in crisis response situations; including how to minister while on site in a disaster scenario, how to remain out of the way of officials such as fire departments while on site of all types of incidents, how to identify other agencies and how to operate in tandem within them, how to offer organization aid in the midst of chaos; including but not limited to supply distribution, crowd management and resource allotment. Completion of the official training qualifies trainees as certified First Responders according to FEMA guidelines, and providing them with the clearance level to be allowed on site at any disaster site where aid is being given.

Licensed Foursquare pastors attending this first course will walk away as a certified Disaster Relief Chaplain. Both days of initial training are required to qualify as an offical responder. Non-licensed Foursquare leaders and Foursquare church members will qualify as Disaster Relief Associates. The FDR program offers continuing education options to remain in current responder and chaplain statuses.

Registration will be at 8:00 AM on November 11. Classes will begin at 8:30 AM and conclude at 5:00 PM each day.

For more information or to register, please visit:

https://thehub.foursquare.org/prod/TheHub/iCore/Events/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=FDRDCR1611&WebsiteKey=88e28451-b04e-40c0-9f02-8d845ecdc811.

Registrants will be asked to create a HUB account, if they do not already have one. This is so that the digital database can pool certified responders together and automatize who may be closest to respond to a local disaster in the foreseeable future.

We hope that you will be able attend this important training, and partner with us in this relevant ministry need.