OneChapel Outreach

Officials are projecting that Bastrop Relief efforts will most likely take 3-4 years to rebuild every home.  In Spicewood, most likely over 1 year.  Unfortunately, 790 families did not have insurance and FEMA only provided a maximum of $30,400 (minus any other relief expenses already given to a family).  This leaves the church, ministries, and local community to come up with the remaining dollars to rebuild every family’s home (an additional $40k in materials per home) and volunteer labor force to keep costs down. In order to accomplish this God-sized task (all things are possible with God!), ADRN is asking every ADRN volunteer to commit to the Lord in this new year, minimally one day over the next two months to the following clean-up efforts (love in action!):

1. Debris & Ash Clean-up: We will be cleaning up approx. 2-3 homes per weekend until the end of January. Please click here to sign up for one or more Saturdays in January, to help us clean up debris and ash from a home in Bastrop.

2. Chainsaw Clean-up: ADRN is establishing a team to do tree cutting and general brush removal tasks, starting sometime in mid-late January. We will need volunteers that can operate chainsaws as well as general laborers who can assist the chainsaw operators in removing and transporting small trees and limbs. To volunteer, please email ADRN Bastrop/Spicewood Project Coordinator, John Banks at banksjg01@yahoo.com.

3. Home Construction: If you have some building skills or are interested in learning construction skills, you are perfect for this task!  ADRN is joining with the Bastrop/Spicewood Long-Term Commities tasks force of professional builders who are commited to help supervise/teach basic construction skills so general volunteers will have an opportunity to serve Christ in Bastrop and learn valuable new skills. Every home will be built from the ground up so so every phase of construction is needed (and can be taught). Help us build a resource base by contacting ADRN soon to inventory what skills we have to offer those in need. Most likely, home construction will begin sometime in February.  To volunteer, please email ADRN Bastrop/Spicewood Project Coordinator, John Banks at banksjg01@yahoo.com.

ADRN will need an army of support to meet the severe needs of those affected by the Spicewood/Bastrop fires.  Together we can accomplish much!  May God, who loves the impossible, meet every single need of those who lost their home through His people!

ADRN Warehouse Update: All three ADRN warehouses in Austin have ceased being available for picking up goods and they are directing those goods and the people receiving them to a NEW, non-ADRN warehouse in Bastrop. Fire victims MUST bring proof of affected address (driver’s license, utility record & photo ID, etc). Please get the word out to your “adopted” family.

• New Location: 201 Childers Dr. – Bastrop, TX 78602
• Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat 8am-12pm; Sun Closed

New Site Cleanup Opportunities (next two Saturdays): We have been informed there are more sites to clean up in Bastrop (and Spicewood too).  Links to sign up sheets below.

• For Sat, Nov 12 sign up at www.mysignup.com/cleanup4adrn11-12
• For Sat, Nov 19 sign up at www.mysignup.com/cleanupadrn11-19

Upcoming ADRN Volunteer Trainings: Would you like to volunteer through Austin Disaster Relief Network to help the Central Texas fire victims? Below you will find information about the next training available. Please note – the Orientation & Preparedness Class is mandatory for all ADRN volunteers.

• November 14th-16th (6PM-10PM) Critical Incident Stress Management Training (CISM) – ADRN highly recommends this internationally recognized training for volunteers who are called to help people in times of crisis and/or called to the mission field. This training will equip participants to deal with the mental, emotional and spiritual issues most people encounter in times of disaster, including trauma, learning debriefing techniques and much more. The training will be presented by Melissa Slagle, a consultant and International Trainer, who has been called out to help disaster victims world-wide in almost every major disaster since Mount St. Helen.  For more info, click here.
• November 15th (6:30PM-9:30PM): ADRN Orientation & Preparedness Class - Every new volunteer that wants to join the ADRN network is required to take this 3hr class to give you an introduction to ADRN, information about ADRN training. For more info, click here.

Hey Everyone,

The ADRN warehouses have been exceptionally low on volunteers in their two south locations lately.  Now, they are needing to close them and move the goods to another location, and they need our help to obtain volunteers.  Do you know of anyone you could call on that might be willing to serve in this way?

The Oak Meadow warehouse must be closed by the end of Thursday THIS week.
Please sign up to help this week (Tues & Thur) at www.mysignup.com/oakmeadow4adrn

The 360 warehouse must be closed by the end of Thursday NEXT week.
Please sign up to help next week (Tues & Thur) at www.mysignup.com/donations4adrncentexrelief

Thanks so much!  I appreciate every one of you: the sacrifices you have made and your heart of service to those who have lost it all. Be strengthened by His joy!

For the next 3 weekends ADRN (Austin Disaster Relief Network) will continue cleanup efforts in Bastrop.

And THEY NEED OUR HELP!

Our purpose will be to assist families in home site clean up, sifting & sorting debris. When clean up is finished, we (through ADRN) will present each family helped with a bible & pray with them.  You do NOT need to be an ADRN trained volunteer to help with the cleanup.

Some of you have already been involved, but we are asking for everyone from ONEchapel to consider helping with this effort. We would like to raise up teams of ten people each to cleanup these devastated home sites. Wouldn’t it be amazing if ONEchapel alone was able to cleanup 5 home sites in just one day!

We are choosing the last Saturday in October, the 29th, as our volunteer cleanup date. This is the weekend of Family Sunday and what better way of celebrating family than to help those families who lost everything?

So 50 people,  that’s the goal! Each team will have a team leader designated to fulfill a leadership role.  The leader will hopefully be ADRN trained.

Meeting Location: Volunteers must show up by 8:30 AM, at their assigned site, to receive specific clean-up and site safety instructions, sign volunteer waiver docs and meet the team.  ATTENDING THE 8:30AM VOLLUNTEER DEBRIEFING MEETING IS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO WORK ON-SITE AS A VOLUNTEER. 

*If you sign up to be a leader at one of the sites, your MEETING LOCATION will be at the Chestnut Square Movie Theatre (1600 Chestnut St., Bastrop) at 7:30AM. Must be ADRN trained volunteer with badge. (Please wear ADRN yellow shirt and badge, if you have them)

What to Wear: workboots or work-duty shoes, long sleeve shirt (light weight), jeans, leather gloves (NO cloth gloves), hat, sunscreen

What to Bring: lunch, water, hand sanitizer, hard hat (if you have one), M-95 (or better) breathing mask *recommended (if you have one),  a few rags (to be thrown away when done)

Special Needs (if you have, Please Bring):  3 wheelbarrows per site, flat/snow shovel, hard metal rake & push broom, sledge hammer (for certain situations), & wire cutters (for certain situations).

Now go, hurry, SIGN UP and let’s show the love of Christ in a tangible way to a community that desperately needs us.

ONEchapel has partnered with Austin Disaster Relief Network to care for the families who have been affected by the Central Texas wildfires. Partner churches of ADRN have been asked to “adopt” or assist families that have lost their homes in the fire.

ONEchapel has been given the names of some families that need our assistance. We are honored to be called to walk alongside them in the restoration process. We’re asking small groups, families, ministry teams or individuals to consider partnering with one of these families.

Would you be willing to adopt a family?

If you would like to be involved in assisting these families get back on their feet, please notify us of this desire when you fill out this form. This is an urgent need and your prayerful, yet timely, response is necessary. You will be given more in-depth information once you notify us of your intention to help.

The overall goals with the family in need:

• Understand the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the family and help them “get back on their feet” by making sure their basic needs are met. Help them move from crisis through the first steps of recovery and to take the next step spiritually.
• The family in need sees you as the hands and feet of Jesus Christ and as part of “the church” (ADRN does not sponsor families and does not meet the needs of the family directly). As much as possible try to connect them with a church in the area they live.

ADRN is minimally looking for 100 volunteers this Saturday (10/8), from 8:30AM-2:30PM, to help clean, sift and sort debris for uninsured families, whose homes were destroyed in Bastrop. To date, ADRN’s volunteers have cleaned up close to 30 homes with an additional 170 families requesting for assistance.

Meeting Location: In order to receive a clean-up assignment, you will need to register/sign-up to a specific location by clicking here. Volunteers must show up by 8:30AM at their assigned site to receive specific clean-up and site safety instructions, sign volunteer waiver docs and meet the team.  Attending this 8:30AM volunteer debriefing meeting is required in order to work on-site as a volunteer.

What To Wear: Workboots, Long sleeve shirt (light weight), Jeans, Leather gloves (no cloth gloves), Hat and Sunscreen.

What To Bring: Lunch and snacks, Water, Hand sanitizer, N-95 (or better) breathing mask (if you have one), a few rags (to be thrown away when done).

Special Needs (if you have, please bring): We need minimally three wheelbarrows per clean-up site along with snow or flat shovels, hard metal rakes, outdoor push broom, sledge hammer (for certain situations), and wire cutters (for certain situations).