mission: The vision vision for Mercy Chefs was born while R. Gary LeBlanc was leading Operation Blessing’s mobile kitchen on its maiden voyage in the days after Hurricane Katrina. The call to feed people and share the hope of better days to come led him to a point in the midst of this horrific disaster where a passion to provide high quality and professionally prepared meals to victims, volunteers and first responders was birthed. Mercy Chefs was founded 9 months later to bring volunteers and industry professionals together, with the most efficient equipment available, in a way no one had done before. The call to provide comfort and compassion in disasters dates to Gary’s remembrance as a child in New Orleans of Hurricanes Betsy and Camille. The power of hospitality and a shared meal is a legacy of his Cajun roots and the influence of watching his grandmothers as they fed family, friends and strangers alike. Mercy Chefs is dedicated to the call to go feed people with the evidence of God's love and a message of grace and mercy. -> The vision vision for Mercy Chefs was born while R. Gary LeBlanc was leading Operation Blessing’s mobile kitchen on its maiden voyage in the days after Hurricane Katrina. The call to feed people and share the hope of better days to come led him to a point in the midst of t his horrific disaster where a passion to provide high quality and professionally prepared meals to victims, volunteers and first responders was birthed. Mercy Chefs was founded 9 months later to bring volunteers and industry professionals together, with the most efficient equipment available, in a way no one had done before. The call to provide comfort and compassion in disasters dates to Gary’s remembrance as a child in New Orleans of Hurricanes Betsy and Camille. The power of hospitality and a shared meal is a legacy of his Cajun roots and the influence of watching his grandmothers as they fed family, friends and strangers alike. Mercy Chefs is dedicated to the call to go feed people with the evidence of God's love and a message of grace and mercy.

notes: Monday, August 27, 2012 email excerpt - Tropical Storm Isaac has had our full attention these past couple of days. Just as Isaac would father a trickster son this storm has proven to be one that will keep us on our toes. As of today Mercy Chefs will be on the Gulf Wednesday and in full swing by Thursday with BOTH kitchen trailers. Exactly where is still not possible to say until the storm makes landfall. We are checking now to see who might be available to volunteer any number of days starting Thursday August 30th . We could use a hand or two for any amount of time you could be away. If you are interested in volunteering with Mercy Chefs please contact: Debbie Lowe cell: 912-227-0087 or through email: Debbie Lowe debbie.lowe @ mercychefs.com If you would be interested in making a tax deductible donation to Mercy Chefs please click on the link below: Donate http://www.mercychefs.com/donate/ We will rally in the Valdosta, Ga or Tallahassee FL area on Wednesday August 29th and move in from there. ================================= 5/2/11 email excerpt - Having just completed a two-week disaster relief effort in Pulaski, VA, serving over 4,000 hot meals, our most readily available chefs are temporarily unavailable. The recent severe weather across the United States has taken hundreds of lives and done immeasurable amounts of damage. YOU CAN HELP. The need is great, but our commitment and dedication to our calling is undeterred. These continued emergency responses are requiring all available volunteer chefs and rapidly depleting all available reserve funds. Please help us to continue our current efforts and to rebuild our immediate response resources, so that we can be prepared for the next storm sure to come. FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. SEE VIDEO - a short video of Gary and Mercy One as he prepared for departure and the long haul to Alabama https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF'S HURRICANE ISACCS AT: http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/9318 SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc @mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/MercyChefs http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298 -> FROM THE SITE 10/27/12 (LTel) From the Desk of: Gary LeBlanc, Mercy Chefs Dear Facebok Friends, A quick update to let you know that our Mercy Chefs team is closely monitoring Hurricane Sandy which is now expected to make landfall along the I-95 Northeast corridor. The storm could impact 65-70 million people, with millions losing power. Throughout the weekend, I will be in close contact with state emergency management officials as well as our ministry partners to ensure that Mercy Chefs can provide relief as needed to the hardest hit areas. Tomorrow, we will begin moving Mercy Chefs resources into Virginia. This will allow us to respond to the earliest possible impact while putting us within hours of reaching almost anywhere along the northeast corridor. If this storm takes the track now projected, we could witness a very serious emergency event impacting the most densely populated region in the entire nation. There is even the possibility of heavy snow on the back side of the storm. This could result in massive power outages inland as well as in coastal regions. BE PREPARED! If you live along the northeast corridor, I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to be prepared. Storms of this magnitude can be extremely dangerous. And once power is lost, the world changes dramatically. FEMA has many useful resources posted, including emergency kit checklists. Go here: http://www.ready.gov/hurricanes I will be sending you email updates as events warrant. The fastest way to get the latest information from Mercy Chefs is to through our Facebook page. Finally, thank you so much for your prayers and support. I am so grateful for friends like you who make it possible for our team to provide the comfort of a hot meal to those whose lives have been turned upside down by disasters. May God bless you. Gary LeBlanc Founder/President Mercy Chefs Inc. P.S. As I noted, we are moving our kitchen resources into position and will be staged in Virginia so we can respond as quickly as possible as events warrant. Much of our expenses occur prior to deployment as we stage and equip our Mercy Chefs facilities. If you would like to make a tax-deductible gift today to help us prepare, please visit our website: www.mercychefs.com/donate
cat_notes: OLD CLOSED RECORD AT: Mercy Chefs Emergency Food Service (Hurricane Ike Response) http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/3520 -------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: From our newsletter: What an amazing four years for Mercy Chefs. We have crossed the 100,000 total meal mark and have fed well over 14,000 people in Haiti. As you can imagine Mercy Chefs has grown to the point that that it needs more than part time attention. The door is open and I have answered the call to a full time position with Mercy Chefs. As I take this step of faith I ask for you to step out with me and for your continued financial partnership. This year we have doubled our domestic response capability. This hurricane season 09 chefs is now upon us and forecast to be very active and destructive. We are ready, but we have been seriously stretched this year. We need your help now so we can continue to respond whenever there is a need. All of this while we continue our work in Haiti in support of medical and rebuilding missions. We have moved over $85,000 of kitchen equipment into Haiti and have opened a full kitchen in Chambrun. Mercy Chefs has logged over 125 09 chefschef days and will continue support as long as needed. There is great excitement as we move forward. Thank you for making it possible for us to go and feed people who are hurting and in need. Your generous gifts are more important now than they have ever been. -> REMOVED OLD NOTES LTEL 10/27/12: Monday, August 27, 2012 email excerpt - Tropical Storm Isaac has had our full attention these past couple of days. Just as Isaac would father a trickster son this storm has proven to be one that will keep us on our toes. As of today Mercy Chefs will be on the Gulf Wednesday and in full swing by Thursday with BOTH kitchen trailers. Exactly where is still not possible to say until the storm makes landfall. We are checking now to see who might be available to volunteer any number of days starting Thursday August 30th . We could use a hand or two for any amount of time you could be away. If you are interested in volunteering with Mercy Chefs please contact: Debbie Lowe cell: 912-227-0087 or through email: Debbie Lowe debbie.lowe @ mercychefs.com If you would be interested in making a tax deductible donation to Mercy Chefs please click on the link below: Donate http://www.mercychefs.com/donate/ We will rally in the Valdosta, Ga or Tallahassee FL area on Wednesday August 29th and move in from there. ================================= 5/2/11 email excerpt - Having just completed a two-week disaster relief effort in Pulaski, VA, serving over 4,000 hot meals, our most readily available chefs are temporarily unavailable. The recent severe weather across the United States has taken hundreds of lives and done immeasurable amounts of damage. YOU CAN HELP. The need is great, but our commitment and dedication to our calling is undeterred. These continued emergency responses are requiring all available volunteer chefs and rapidly depleting all available reserve funds. Please help us to continue our current efforts and to rebuild our immediate response resources, so that we can be prepared for the next storm sure to come. FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. SEE VIDEO - a short video of Gary and Mercy One as he prepared for departure and the long haul to Alabama https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF'S HURRICANE ISACCS AT: http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/9318 SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc @mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/MercyChefs http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298 ----------------------------------- OLD CLOSED RECORD AT: Mercy Chefs Emergency Food Service (Hurricane Ike Response) http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/3520 -------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: From our newsletter: What an amazing four years for Mercy Chefs. We have crossed the 100,000 total meal mark and have fed well over 14,000 people in Haiti. As you can imagine Mercy Chefs has grown to the point that that it needs more than part time attention. The door is open and I have answered the call to a full time position with Mercy Chefs. As I take this step of faith I ask for you to step out with me and for your continued financial partnership. This year we have doubled our domestic response capability. This hurricane season 09 chefs is now upon us and forecast to be very active and destructive. We are ready, but we have been seriously stretched this year. We need your help now so we can continue to respond whenever there is a need. All of this while we continue our work in Haiti in support of medical and rebuilding missions. We have moved over $85,000 of kitchen equipment into Haiti and have opened a full kitchen in Chambrun. Mercy Chefs has logged over 125 09 chefschef days and will continue support as long as needed. There is great excitement as we move forward. Thank you for making it possible for us to go and feed people who are hurting and in need. Your generous gifts are more important now than they have ever been.

notes: Monday, August 27, 2012 email excerpt - Tropical Storm Isaac has had our full attention these past couple of days. Just as Isaac would father a trickster son this storm has proven to be one that will keep us on our toes. As of today Mercy Chefs will be on the Gulf Wednesday and in full swing by Thursday with BOTH kitchen trailers. Exactly where is still not possible to say until the storm makes landfall. We are checking now to see who might be available to volunteer any number of days starting Thursday August 30th . We could use a hand or two for any amount of time you could be away. If you are interested in volunteering with Mercy Chefs please contact: Debbie Lowe cell: 912-227-0087 or through email: Debbie Lowe debbie.lowe @ mercychefs.com If you would be interested in making a tax deductible donation to Mercy Chefs please click on the link below: Donate http://www.mercychefs.com/donate/ We will rally in the Valdosta, Ga or Tallahassee FL area on Wednesday August 29th and move in from there. ================================= 5/2/11 email excerpt - Having just completed a two-week disaster relief effort in Pulaski, VA, serving over 4,000 hot meals, our most readily available chefs are temporarily unavailable. The recent severe weather across the United States has taken hundreds of lives and done immeasurable amounts of damage. YOU CAN HELP. The need is great, but our commitment and dedication to our calling is undeterred. These continued emergency responses are requiring all available volunteer chefs and rapidly depleting all available reserve funds. Please help us to continue our current efforts and to rebuild our immediate response resources, so that we can be prepared for the next storm sure to come. FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. SEE VIDEO - a short video of Gary and Mercy One as he prepared for departure and the long haul to Alabama https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF'S HURRICANE ISACCS AT: http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/9318 SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc @mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298 -> Monday, August 27, 2012 email excerpt - Tropical Storm Isaac has had our full attention these past couple of days. Just as Isaac would father a trickster son this storm has proven to be one that will keep us on our toes. As of today Mercy Chefs will be on the Gulf Wednesday and in full swing by Thursday with BOTH kitchen trailers. Exactly where is still not possible to say until the storm makes landfall. We are checking now to see who might be available to volunteer any number of days starting Thursday August 30th . We could use a hand or two for any amount of time you could be away. If you are interested in volunteering with Mercy Chefs please contact: Debbie Lowe cell: 912-227-0087 or through email: Debbie Lowe debbie.lowe @ mercychefs.com If you would be interested in making a tax deductible donation to Mercy Chefs please click on the link below: Donate http://www.mercychefs.com/donate/ We will rally in the Valdosta, Ga or Tallahassee FL area on Wednesday August 29th and move in from there. ================================= 5/2/11 email excerpt - Having just completed a two-week disaster relief effort in Pulaski, VA, serving over 4,000 hot meals, our most readily available chefs are temporarily unavailable. The recent severe weather across the United States has taken hundreds of lives and done immeasurable amounts of damage. YOU CAN HELP. The need is great, but our commitment and dedication to our calling is undeterred. These continued emergency responses are requiring all available volunteer chefs and rapidly depleting all available reserve funds. Please help us to continue our current efforts and to rebuild our immediate response resources, so that we can be prepared for the next storm sure to come. FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. SEE VIDEO - a short video of Gary and Mercy One as he prepared for departure and the long haul to Alabama https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF'S HURRICANE ISACCS AT: http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/9318 SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc @mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/MercyChefs http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298

notes: Monday, August 27, 2012 email excerpt - Tropical Storm Isaac has had our full attention these past couple of days. Just as Isaac would father a trickster son this storm has proven to be one that will keep us on our toes. As of today Mercy Chefs will be on the Gulf Wednesday and in full swing by Thursday with BOTH kitchen trailers. Exactly where is still not possible to say until the storm makes landfall. We are checking now to see who might be available to volunteer any number of days starting Thursday August 30th . We could use a hand or two for any amount of time you could be away. If you are interested in volunteering with Mercy Chefs please contact: Debbie Lowe cell: 912-227-0087 or through email: Debbie Lowe debbie.lowe @ mercychefs.com If you would be interested in making a tax deductible donation to Mercy Chefs please click on the link below: Donate http://www.mercychefs.com/donate/ We will rally in the Valdosta, Ga or Tallahassee FL area on Wednesday August 29th and move in from there. ================================= 5/2/11 email excerpt - Having just completed a two-week disaster relief effort in Pulaski, VA, serving over 4,000 hot meals, our most readily available chefs are temporarily unavailable. The recent severe weather across the United States has taken hundreds of lives and done immeasurable amounts of damage. YOU CAN HELP. The need is great, but our commitment and dedication to our calling is undeterred. These continued emergency responses are requiring all available volunteer chefs and rapidly depleting all available reserve funds. Please help us to continue our current efforts and to rebuild our immediate response resources, so that we can be prepared for the next storm sure to come. FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. SEE VIDEO - a short video of Gary and Mercy One as he prepared for departure and the long haul to Alabama https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc @mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298 -> Monday, August 27, 2012 email excerpt - Tropical Storm Isaac has had our full attention these past couple of days. Just as Isaac would father a trickster son this storm has proven to be one that will keep us on our toes. As of today Mercy Chefs will be on the Gulf Wednesday and in full swing by Thursday with BOTH kitchen trailers. Exactly where is still not possible to say until the storm makes landfall. We are checking now to see who might be available to volunteer any number of days starting Thursday August 30th . We could use a hand or two for any amount of time you could be away. If you are interested in volunteering with Mercy Chefs please contact: Debbie Lowe cell: 912-227-0087 or through email: Debbie Lowe debbie.lowe @ mercychefs.com If you would be interested in making a tax deductible donation to Mercy Chefs please click on the link below: Donate http://www.mercychefs.com/donate/ We will rally in the Valdosta, Ga or Tallahassee FL area on Wednesday August 29th and move in from there. ================================= 5/2/11 email excerpt - Having just completed a two-week disaster relief effort in Pulaski, VA, serving over 4,000 hot meals, our most readily available chefs are temporarily unavailable. The recent severe weather across the United States has taken hundreds of lives and done immeasurable amounts of damage. YOU CAN HELP. The need is great, but our commitment and dedication to our calling is undeterred. These continued emergency responses are requiring all available volunteer chefs and rapidly depleting all available reserve funds. Please help us to continue our current efforts and to rebuild our immediate response resources, so that we can be prepared for the next storm sure to come. FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. SEE VIDEO - a short video of Gary and Mercy One as he prepared for departure and the long haul to Alabama https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF'S HURRICANE ISACCS AT: http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/9318 SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc @mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298

notes: Monday, August 27, 2012 email excerpt - Tropical Storm Isaac has had our full attention these past couple of days. Just as Isaac would father a trickster son this storm has proven to be one that will keep us on our toes. As of today Mercy Chefs will be on the Gulf Wednesday and in full swing by Thursday with BOTH kitchen trailers. Exactly where is still not possible to say until the storm makes landfall. We are checking now to see who might be available to volunteer any number of days starting Thursday August 30th . We could use a hand or two for any amount of time you could be away. If you are interested in volunteering with Mercy Chefs please contact: Debbie Lowe cell: 912-227-0087 or through email: Debbie Lowe debbie.lowe @ mercychefs.com If you would be interested in making a tax deductible donation to Mercy Chefs please click on the link below: Donate We will rally in the Valdosta, Ga or Tallahassee FL area on Wednesday August 29th and move in from there. ================================= 5/2/11 email excerpt - Having just completed a two-week disaster relief effort in Pulaski, VA, serving over 4,000 hot meals, our most readily available chefs are temporarily unavailable. The recent severe weather across the United States has taken hundreds of lives and done immeasurable amounts of damage. YOU CAN HELP. The need is great, but our commitment and dedication to our calling is undeterred. These continued emergency responses are requiring all available volunteer chefs and rapidly depleting all available reserve funds. Please help us to continue our current efforts and to rebuild our immediate response resources, so that we can be prepared for the next storm sure to come. FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. SEE VIDEO - a short video of Gary and Mercy One as he prepared for departure and the long haul to Alabama https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc @mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298 -> Monday, August 27, 2012 email excerpt - Tropical Storm Isaac has had our full attention these past couple of days. Just as Isaac would father a trickster son this storm has proven to be one that will keep us on our toes. As of today Mercy Chefs will be on the Gulf Wednesday and in full swing by Thursday with BOTH kitchen trailers. Exactly where is still not possible to say until the storm makes landfall. We are checking now to see who might be available to volunteer any number of days starting Thursday August 30th . We could use a hand or two for any amount of time you could be away. If you are interested in volunteering with Mercy Chefs please contact: Debbie Lowe cell: 912-227-0087 or through email: Debbie Lowe debbie.lowe @ mercychefs.com If you would be interested in making a tax deductible donation to Mercy Chefs please click on the link below: Donate http://www.mercychefs.com/donate/ We will rally in the Valdosta, Ga or Tallahassee FL area on Wednesday August 29th and move in from there. ================================= 5/2/11 email excerpt - Having just completed a two-week disaster relief effort in Pulaski, VA, serving over 4,000 hot meals, our most readily available chefs are temporarily unavailable. The recent severe weather across the United States has taken hundreds of lives and done immeasurable amounts of damage. YOU CAN HELP. The need is great, but our commitment and dedication to our calling is undeterred. These continued emergency responses are requiring all available volunteer chefs and rapidly depleting all available reserve funds. Please help us to continue our current efforts and to rebuild our immediate response resources, so that we can be prepared for the next storm sure to come. FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. SEE VIDEO - a short video of Gary and Mercy One as he prepared for departure and the long haul to Alabama https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc @mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298

notes: 5/2/11 email excerpt - Having just completed a two-week disaster relief effort in Pulaski, VA, serving over 4,000 hot meals, our most readily available chefs are temporarily unavailable. The recent severe weather across the United States has taken hundreds of lives and done immeasurable amounts of damage. YOU CAN HELP. The need is great, but our commitment and dedication to our calling is undeterred. These continued emergency responses are requiring all available volunteer chefs and rapidly depleting all available reserve funds. Please help us to continue our current efforts and to rebuild our immediate response resources, so that we can be prepared for the next storm sure to come. FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. SEE VIDEO - a short video of Gary and Mercy One as he prepared for departure and the long haul to Alabama https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc @mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298 -> Monday, August 27, 2012 email excerpt - Tropical Storm Isaac has had our full attention these past couple of days. Just as Isaac would father a trickster son this storm has proven to be one that will keep us on our toes. As of today Mercy Chefs will be on the Gulf Wednesday and in full swing by Thursday with BOTH kitchen trailers. Exactly where is still not possible to say until the storm makes landfall. We are checking now to see who might be available to volunteer any number of days starting Thursday August 30th . We could use a hand or two for any amount of time you could be away. If you are interested in volunteering with Mercy Chefs please contact: Debbie Lowe cell: 912-227-0087 or through email: Debbie Lowe debbie.lowe @ mercychefs.com If you would be interested in making a tax deductible donation to Mercy Chefs please click on the link below: Donate We will rally in the Valdosta, Ga or Tallahassee FL area on Wednesday August 29th and move in from there. ================================= 5/2/11 email excerpt - Having just completed a two-week disaster relief effort in Pulaski, VA, serving over 4,000 hot meals, our most readily available chefs are temporarily unavailable. The recent severe weather across the United States has taken hundreds of lives and done immeasurable amounts of damage. YOU CAN HELP. The need is great, but our commitment and dedication to our calling is undeterred. These continued emergency responses are requiring all available volunteer chefs and rapidly depleting all available reserve funds. Please help us to continue our current efforts and to rebuild our immediate response resources, so that we can be prepared for the next storm sure to come. FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. SEE VIDEO - a short video of Gary and Mercy One as he prepared for departure and the long haul to Alabama https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc @mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298

mgt_phone changed.
notes: 5/2/11 email excerpt - Having just completed a two-week disaster relief effort in Pulaski, VA, serving over 4,000 hot meals, our most readily available chefs are temporarily unavailable. The recent severe weather across the United States has taken hundreds of lives and done immeasurable amounts of damage. YOU CAN HELP. The need is great, but our commitment and dedication to our calling is undeterred. These continued emergency responses are requiring all available volunteer chefs and rapidly depleting all available reserve funds. Please help us to continue our current efforts and to rebuild our immediate response resources, so that we can be prepared for the next storm sure to come. FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. SEE VIDEO - a short video of Gary and Mercy One as he prepared for departure and the long haul to Alabama https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 -------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: From our newsletter: What an amazing four years for Mercy Chefs. We have crossed the 100,000 total meal mark and have fed well over 14,000 people in Haiti. As you can imagine Mercy Chefs has grown to the point that that it needs more than part time attention. The door is open and I have answered the call to a full time position with Mercy Chefs. As I take this step of faith I ask for you to step out with me and for your continued financial partnership. This year we have doubled our domestic response capability. This hurricane season 09 chefsis now upon us and forecast to be very active and destructive. We are ready, but we have been seriously stretched this year. We need your help now so we can continue to respond whenever there is a need. All of this while we continue our work in Haiti in support of medical and rebuilding missions. We have moved over $85,000 of kitchen equipment into Haiti and have opened a full kitchen in Chambrun. Mercy Chefs has logged over 125 09 chefschef days and will continue support as long as needed. There is great excitement as we move forward. Thank you for making it possible for us to go and feed people who are hurting and in need. Your generous gifts are more important now than they have ever been. --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc@mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298 -> 5/2/11 email excerpt - Having just completed a two-week disaster relief effort in Pulaski, VA, serving over 4,000 hot meals, our most readily available chefs are temporarily unavailable. The recent severe weather across the United States has taken hundreds of lives and done immeasurable amounts of damage. YOU CAN HELP. The need is great, but our commitment and dedication to our calling is undeterred. These continued emergency responses are requiring all available volunteer chefs and rapidly depleting all available reserve funds. Please help us to continue our current efforts and to rebuild our immediate response resources, so that we can be prepared for the next storm sure to come. FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. SEE VIDEO - a short video of Gary and Mercy One as he prepared for departure and the long haul to Alabama https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc @mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298
cat_notes: OLD CLOSED RECORD AT: Mercy Chefs Emergency Food Service (Hurricane Ike Response) http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/3520 -> OLD CLOSED RECORD AT: Mercy Chefs Emergency Food Service (Hurricane Ike Response) http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/3520 -------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: From our newsletter: What an amazing four years for Mercy Chefs. We have crossed the 100,000 total meal mark and have fed well over 14,000 people in Haiti. As you can imagine Mercy Chefs has grown to the point that that it needs more than part time attention. The door is open and I have answered the call to a full time position with Mercy Chefs. As I take this step of faith I ask for you to step out with me and for your continued financial partnership. This year we have doubled our domestic response capability. This hurricane season 09 chefs is now upon us and forecast to be very active and destructive. We are ready, but we have been seriously stretched this year. We need your help now so we can continue to respond whenever there is a need. All of this while we continue our work in Haiti in support of medical and rebuilding missions. We have moved over $85,000 of kitchen equipment into Haiti and have opened a full kitchen in Chambrun. Mercy Chefs has logged over 125 09 chefschef days and will continue support as long as needed. There is great excitement as we move forward. Thank you for making it possible for us to go and feed people who are hurting and in need. Your generous gifts are more important now than they have ever been.

notes: FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. VIDEO - a short video of Gary and Mercy One as he prepared for departure and the long haul to Alabama https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 -------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: From our newsletter: What an amazing four years for Mercy Chefs. We have crossed the 100,000 total meal mark and have fed well over 14,000 people in Haiti. As you can imagine Mercy Chefs has grown to the point that that it needs more than part time attention. The door is open and I have answered the call to a full time position with Mercy Chefs. As I take this step of faith I ask for you to step out with me and for your continued financial partnership. This year we have doubled our domestic response capability. This hurricane season 09 chefsis now upon us and forecast to be very active and destructive. We are ready, but we have been seriously stretched this year. We need your help now so we can continue to respond whenever there is a need. All of this while we continue our work in Haiti in support of medical and rebuilding missions. We have moved over $85,000 of kitchen equipment into Haiti and have opened a full kitchen in Chambrun. Mercy Chefs has logged over 125 09 chefschef days and will continue support as long as needed. There is great excitement as we move forward. Thank you for making it possible for us to go and feed people who are hurting and in need. Your generous gifts are more important now than they have ever been. --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc@mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298 -> 5/2/11 email excerpt - Having just completed a two-week disaster relief effort in Pulaski, VA, serving over 4,000 hot meals, our most readily available chefs are temporarily unavailable. The recent severe weather across the United States has taken hundreds of lives and done immeasurable amounts of damage. YOU CAN HELP. The need is great, but our commitment and dedication to our calling is undeterred. These continued emergency responses are requiring all available volunteer chefs and rapidly depleting all available reserve funds. Please help us to continue our current efforts and to rebuild our immediate response resources, so that we can be prepared for the next storm sure to come. FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. SEE VIDEO - a short video of Gary and Mercy One as he prepared for departure and the long haul to Alabama https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 -------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: From our newsletter: What an amazing four years for Mercy Chefs. We have crossed the 100,000 total meal mark and have fed well over 14,000 people in Haiti. As you can imagine Mercy Chefs has grown to the point that that it needs more than part time attention. The door is open and I have answered the call to a full time position with Mercy Chefs. As I take this step of faith I ask for you to step out with me and for your continued financial partnership. This year we have doubled our domestic response capability. This hurricane season 09 chefsis now upon us and forecast to be very active and destructive. We are ready, but we have been seriously stretched this year. We need your help now so we can continue to respond whenever there is a need. All of this while we continue our work in Haiti in support of medical and rebuilding missions. We have moved over $85,000 of kitchen equipment into Haiti and have opened a full kitchen in Chambrun. Mercy Chefs has logged over 125 09 chefschef days and will continue support as long as needed. There is great excitement as we move forward. Thank you for making it possible for us to go and feed people who are hurting and in need. Your generous gifts are more important now than they have ever been. --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc@mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298

notes: FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. VIDEO - https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 -------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: From our newsletter: What an amazing four years for Mercy Chefs. We have crossed the 100,000 total meal mark and have fed well over 14,000 people in Haiti. As you can imagine Mercy Chefs has grown to the point that that it needs more than part time attention. The door is open and I have answered the call to a full time position with Mercy Chefs. As I take this step of faith I ask for you to step out with me and for your continued financial partnership. This year we have doubled our domestic response capability. This hurricane season 09 chefsis now upon us and forecast to be very active and destructive. We are ready, but we have been seriously stretched this year. We need your help now so we can continue to respond whenever there is a need. All of this while we continue our work in Haiti in support of medical and rebuilding missions. We have moved over $85,000 of kitchen equipment into Haiti and have opened a full kitchen in Chambrun. Mercy Chefs has logged over 125 09 chefschef days and will continue support as long as needed. There is great excitement as we move forward. Thank you for making it possible for us to go and feed people who are hurting and in need. Your generous gifts are more important now than they have ever been. --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc@mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298 -> FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. VIDEO - a short video of Gary and Mercy One as he prepared for departure and the long haul to Alabama https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 -------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: From our newsletter: What an amazing four years for Mercy Chefs. We have crossed the 100,000 total meal mark and have fed well over 14,000 people in Haiti. As you can imagine Mercy Chefs has grown to the point that that it needs more than part time attention. The door is open and I have answered the call to a full time position with Mercy Chefs. As I take this step of faith I ask for you to step out with me and for your continued financial partnership. This year we have doubled our domestic response capability. This hurricane season 09 chefsis now upon us and forecast to be very active and destructive. We are ready, but we have been seriously stretched this year. We need your help now so we can continue to respond whenever there is a need. All of this while we continue our work in Haiti in support of medical and rebuilding missions. We have moved over $85,000 of kitchen equipment into Haiti and have opened a full kitchen in Chambrun. Mercy Chefs has logged over 125 09 chefschef days and will continue support as long as needed. There is great excitement as we move forward. Thank you for making it possible for us to go and feed people who are hurting and in need. Your generous gifts are more important now than they have ever been. --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc@mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298

notes: FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 -------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: From our newsletter: What an amazing four years for Mercy Chefs. We have crossed the 100,000 total meal mark and have fed well over 14,000 people in Haiti. As you can imagine Mercy Chefs has grown to the point that that it needs more than part time attention. The door is open and I have answered the call to a full time position with Mercy Chefs. As I take this step of faith I ask for you to step out with me and for your continued financial partnership. This year we have doubled our domestic response capability. This hurricane season 09 chefsis now upon us and forecast to be very active and destructive. We are ready, but we have been seriously stretched this year. We need your help now so we can continue to respond whenever there is a need. All of this while we continue our work in Haiti in support of medical and rebuilding missions. We have moved over $85,000 of kitchen equipment into Haiti and have opened a full kitchen in Chambrun. Mercy Chefs has logged over 125 09 chefschef days and will continue support as long as needed. There is great excitement as we move forward. Thank you for making it possible for us to go and feed people who are hurting and in need. Your generous gifts are more important now than they have ever been. --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc@mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298 -> FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. VIDEO - https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1939531177342&oid=210626158298&comments VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 -------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: From our newsletter: What an amazing four years for Mercy Chefs. We have crossed the 100,000 total meal mark and have fed well over 14,000 people in Haiti. As you can imagine Mercy Chefs has grown to the point that that it needs more than part time attention. The door is open and I have answered the call to a full time position with Mercy Chefs. As I take this step of faith I ask for you to step out with me and for your continued financial partnership. This year we have doubled our domestic response capability. This hurricane season 09 chefsis now upon us and forecast to be very active and destructive. We are ready, but we have been seriously stretched this year. We need your help now so we can continue to respond whenever there is a need. All of this while we continue our work in Haiti in support of medical and rebuilding missions. We have moved over $85,000 of kitchen equipment into Haiti and have opened a full kitchen in Chambrun. Mercy Chefs has logged over 125 09 chefschef days and will continue support as long as needed. There is great excitement as we move forward. Thank you for making it possible for us to go and feed people who are hurting and in need. Your generous gifts are more important now than they have ever been. --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc@mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298

main_phone: -> Email us at info @MercyChefs.com and we will try to be of service to you
notes: SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 -------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: From our newsletter: What an amazing four years for Mercy Chefs. We have crossed the 100,000 total meal mark and have fed well over 14,000 people in Haiti. As you can imagine Mercy Chefs has grown to the point that that it needs more than part time attention. The door is open and I have answered the call to a full time position with Mercy Chefs. As I take this step of faith I ask for you to step out with me and for your continued financial partnership. This year we have doubled our domestic response capability. This hurricane season 09 chefsis now upon us and forecast to be very active and destructive. We are ready, but we have been seriously stretched this year. We need your help now so we can continue to respond whenever there is a need. All of this while we continue our work in Haiti in support of medical and rebuilding missions. We have moved over $85,000 of kitchen equipment into Haiti and have opened a full kitchen in Chambrun. Mercy Chefs has logged over 125 09 chefschef days and will continue support as long as needed. There is great excitement as we move forward. Thank you for making it possible for us to go and feed people who are hurting and in need. Your generous gifts are more important now than they have ever been. --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc@mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298 -> FACEBOOK POST - (April 2011) Now, perhaps more than ever, we need your support. Families have been left homeless or without power and are lacking the needed supplies to survive. Too many lives have already been lost. To make a secure donation toward our undeterred commitment to feeding these devastated communities, please visit www.mercychefs.com/donate. Mercy Chefs is also coordinating relief efforts with church and community-based volunteers in Gloucester, VA, where a tornado took 3 lives last night. Please contact genevieve.leblanc @mercychefs.com for more information. VOLUNTEERS - http://www.mercychefs.com/contactus/ We need experienced hospitality industry volunteers and we need willing hands with no experience too. If you can drive a truck, write copy, video graph, take photo’s, know how to wash dishes, cook, serve, clean up, organize, blog, have logistics experience, or any of a hundred other skills chances are we need your help. Our Mercy Chef’s, Dave VanAbel(Wisconsin), Curt Hencye(Florida), Walter Taylor(Virginia), Herman Mosely(North Carolina) and Debbie Lowe(Georgia) need all sorts of volunteers to join them. We will soon need complete volunteer teams with new Mercy Chefs in North Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:11b NIV Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce himself in you. ~ Major Ian Thomas ======= SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 -------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: From our newsletter: What an amazing four years for Mercy Chefs. We have crossed the 100,000 total meal mark and have fed well over 14,000 people in Haiti. As you can imagine Mercy Chefs has grown to the point that that it needs more than part time attention. The door is open and I have answered the call to a full time position with Mercy Chefs. As I take this step of faith I ask for you to step out with me and for your continued financial partnership. This year we have doubled our domestic response capability. This hurricane season 09 chefsis now upon us and forecast to be very active and destructive. We are ready, but we have been seriously stretched this year. We need your help now so we can continue to respond whenever there is a need. All of this while we continue our work in Haiti in support of medical and rebuilding missions. We have moved over $85,000 of kitchen equipment into Haiti and have opened a full kitchen in Chambrun. Mercy Chefs has logged over 125 09 chefschef days and will continue support as long as needed. There is great excitement as we move forward. Thank you for making it possible for us to go and feed people who are hurting and in need. Your generous gifts are more important now than they have ever been. --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc@mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298

notes: FROM THE SITE: From our newsletter: What an amazing four years for Mercy Chefs. We have crossed the 100,000 total meal mark and have fed well over 14,000 people in Haiti. As you can imagine Mercy Chefs has grown to the point that that it needs more than part time attention. The door is open and I have answered the call to a full time position with Mercy Chefs. As I take this step of faith I ask for you to step out with me and for your continued financial partnership. This year we have doubled our domestic response capability. This hurricane season 09 chefsis now upon us and forecast to be very active and destructive. We are ready, but we have been seriously stretched this year. We need your help now so we can continue to respond whenever there is a need. All of this while we continue our work in Haiti in support of medical and rebuilding missions. We have moved over $85,000 of kitchen equipment into Haiti and have opened a full kitchen in Chambrun. Mercy Chefs has logged over 125 09 chefschef days and will continue support as long as needed. There is great excitement as we move forward. Thank you for making it possible for us to go and feed people who are hurting and in need. Your generous gifts are more important now than they have ever been. --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc@mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298 -> SEE SEPARATE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR MERCY CHEF's HAITI OPERATIONS AT: http://citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6224 -------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: From our newsletter: What an amazing four years for Mercy Chefs. We have crossed the 100,000 total meal mark and have fed well over 14,000 people in Haiti. As you can imagine Mercy Chefs has grown to the point that that it needs more than part time attention. The door is open and I have answered the call to a full time position with Mercy Chefs. As I take this step of faith I ask for you to step out with me and for your continued financial partnership. This year we have doubled our domestic response capability. This hurricane season 09 chefsis now upon us and forecast to be very active and destructive. We are ready, but we have been seriously stretched this year. We need your help now so we can continue to respond whenever there is a need. All of this while we continue our work in Haiti in support of medical and rebuilding missions. We have moved over $85,000 of kitchen equipment into Haiti and have opened a full kitchen in Chambrun. Mercy Chefs has logged over 125 09 chefschef days and will continue support as long as needed. There is great excitement as we move forward. Thank you for making it possible for us to go and feed people who are hurting and in need. Your generous gifts are more important now than they have ever been. --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc@mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298
mission: The vision vision for Mercy Chefs was born while R. Gary LeBlanc was leading Operation Blessing’s mobile kitchen on its maiden voyage in the days after Hurricane Katrina. The call to feed people and share the hope of better days to come led him to a point in the midst of this horrific disaster where a passion to provide high quality and professionally prepared meals to victims, volunteers and first responders was birthed. Mercy Chefs was founded 9 months later to bring volunteers and industry professionals together, with the most efficient equipment available, in a way no one had done before. The call to provide comfort and compassion in disasters dates to Gary’s remembrance as a child in New Orleans of Hurricanes Betsy and Camille. The power of hospitality and a shared meal is a legacy of his Cajun roots and the influence of watching his grandmothers as they fed family, friends and strangers alike. Mercy Chefs is dedicated to the call to go feed people with the evidence of God's love and a message of grace and mercy. -> The vision vision for Mercy Chefs was born while R. Gary LeBlanc was leading Operation Blessing’s mobile kitchen on its maiden voyage in the days after Hurricane Katrina. The call to feed people and share the hope of better days to come led him to a point in the midst of this horrific disaster where a passion to provide high quality and professionally prepared meals to victims, volunteers and first responders was birthed. Mercy Chefs was founded 9 months later to bring volunteers and industry professionals together, with the most efficient equipment available, in a way no one had done before. The call to provide comfort and compassion in disasters dates to Gary’s remembrance as a child in New Orleans of Hurricanes Betsy and Camille. The power of hospitality and a shared meal is a legacy of his Cajun roots and the influence of watching his grandmothers as they fed family, friends and strangers alike. Mercy Chefs is dedicated to the call to go feed people with the evidence of God's love and a message of grace and mercy.

notes: 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc@mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298 -> FROM THE SITE: From our newsletter: What an amazing four years for Mercy Chefs. We have crossed the 100,000 total meal mark and have fed well over 14,000 people in Haiti. As you can imagine Mercy Chefs has grown to the point that that it needs more than part time attention. The door is open and I have answered the call to a full time position with Mercy Chefs. As I take this step of faith I ask for you to step out with me and for your continued financial partnership. This year we have doubled our domestic response capability. This hurricane season 09 chefsis now upon us and forecast to be very active and destructive. We are ready, but we have been seriously stretched this year. We need your help now so we can continue to respond whenever there is a need. All of this while we continue our work in Haiti in support of medical and rebuilding missions. We have moved over $85,000 of kitchen equipment into Haiti and have opened a full kitchen in Chambrun. Mercy Chefs has logged over 125 09 chefschef days and will continue support as long as needed. There is great excitement as we move forward. Thank you for making it possible for us to go and feed people who are hurting and in need. Your generous gifts are more important now than they have ever been. --------------------------------- 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Latest News Haiti Earthquake - The reports of widespread devastation are overwhelming and the suffering beyond our comprehension. Mercy Chefs is making contact with our relief partners and with friends on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is hard to know what efforts we will take, however we are making every effort to formulate the most appropriate and effective response. Please pray for God's direction and provision as we prepare. We will keep you posted as more information becomes available and plans take shape. Our two field portable water purification units that will purify up to 10,000 gallons of water daily have been made available on loan to a medical mission team and to a relief team, both on the way to Haiti. Until things are clearly assessed there is little more we can do except to pray and prepare. Please continue to pray for those affected and for provision for those who will respond. If you have any contacts in Haiti that you believe we should collaborate with, please get in touch with us at info @mercychefs.com ======== DONATE - Mercy Chefs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, faith based, public charity founded in 2006 to serve high quality, professionally prepared meals in natural disasters and national emergencies by recruiting industry professionals and training community based volunteers. Mercy Chefs also supports the mission of other faith based organizations by providing food service. Mercy Chefs operates with zero salaries and is an all volunteer organization. Your support and donations are used for equipment, supplies, groceries and direct response expenses. We count completely on the generosity of companies, corporations and individuals. We cannot go unless we are sent. Please consider partnering with us as we go feed people who find themselves hurting and in need. If you have goods, gifts in kind, equipment, services or major financial gifts that you wish to donate please contact gary.leblanc@mercychefs.com directly. We would love the opportunity to share how your gifts will be used. We are committed to integrity and accountability and will do whatever is possible to ensure the intent of our donors is honored. “If one of you says to him ‘Go, I wish you well: keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?” James 2:16 “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill ======== FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mercy-Chefs/210626158298
mission: The vision vision for Mercy Chefs was born while R. Gary LeBlanc was leading Operation Blessing’s mobile kitchen on its maiden voyage in the days after Hurricane Katrina. The call to feed people and share the hope of better days to come led him to a point in the midst of this horrific disaster where a passion to provide high quality and professionally prepared meals to victims, volunteers and first responders was birthed. Mercy Chefs was founded 9 months later to bring volunteers and industry professionals together, with the most efficient equipment available, in a way no one had done before. The call to provide comfort and compassion in disasters dates to Gary’s remembrance as a child in New Orleans of Hurricanes Betsy and Camille. The power of hospitality and a shared meal is a legacy of his Cajun roots and the influence of watching his grandmothers as they fed family, friends and strangers alike. Mercy Chefs is dedicated to the call to go feed people with the evidence of God's love and a message of grace and mercy. -> The vision vision for Mercy Chefs was born while R. Gary LeBlanc was leading Operation Blessing’s mobile kitchen on its maiden voyage in the days after Hurricane Katrina. The call to feed people and share the hope of better days to come led him to a point in the midst of this horrific disaster where a passion to provide high quality and professionally prepared meals to victims, volunteers and first responders was birthed. Mercy Chefs was founded 9 months later to bring volunteers and industry professionals together, with the most efficient equipment available, in a way no one had done before. The call to provide comfort and compassion in disasters dates to Gary’s remembrance as a child in New Orleans of Hurricanes Betsy and Camille. The power of hospitality and a shared meal is a legacy of his Cajun roots and the influence of watching his grandmothers as they fed family, friends and strangers alike. Mercy Chefs is dedicated to the call to go feed people with the evidence of God's love and a message of grace and mercy.

mission: The vision vision for Mercy Chefs was born while R. Gary LeBlanc was leading Operation Blessing’s mobile kitchen on its maiden voyage in the days after Hurricane Katrina. The call to feed people and share the hope of better days to come led him to a point in the midst of this horrific disaster where a passion to provide high quality and professionally prepared meals to victims, volunteers and first responders was birthed. Mercy Chefs was founded 9 months later to bring volunteers and industry professionals together, with the most efficient equipment available, in a way no one had done before. The call to provide comfort and compassion in disasters dates to Gary’s remembrance as a child in New Orleans of Hurricanes Betsy and Camille. The power of hospitality and a shared meal is a legacy of his Cajun roots and the influence of watching his grandmothers as they fed family, friends and strangers alike. Mercy Chefs is dedicated to the call to go feed people with the evidence of God's love and a message of grace and mercy. (see About Us) -> The vision vision for Mercy Chefs was born while R. Gary LeBlanc was leading Operation Blessing’s mobile kitchen on its maiden voyage in the days after Hurricane Katrina. The call to feed people and share the hope of better days to come led him to a point in the midst of this horrific disaster where a passion to provide high quality and professionally prepared meals to victims, volunteers and first responders was birthed. Mercy Chefs was founded 9 months later to bring volunteers and industry professionals together, with the most efficient equipment available, in a way no one had done before. The call to provide comfort and compassion in disasters dates to Gary’s remembrance as a child in New Orleans of Hurricanes Betsy and Camille. The power of hospitality and a shared meal is a legacy of his Cajun roots and the influence of watching his grandmothers as they fed family, friends and strangers alike. Mercy Chefs is dedicated to the call to go feed people with the evidence of God's love and a message of grace and mercy.

region: -> International

other_contacts changed.
cat_notes: -> OLD CLOSED RECORD AT: Mercy Chefs Emergency Food Service (Hurricane Ike Response) http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/3520