Our club maintains a fully equipped trailer stocked with grills, griddles, tables, chairs, generators, and other essentials, enabling us to provide hot meals in communities impacted by natural disasters such as hurricanes or tornadoes. As a rapid response deployment team, our members transport the trailer, food, and water directly to disaster-affected areas. We serve hot meals—typically hamburgers and hot dogs with condiments—along with chips, fruit, and bottled water, all packaged in convenient takeout containers.
In the past, we’ve provided over 600 meals per day, bridging the critical gap before major relief organizations like the Red Cross and UMCOR can mobilize. Once these larger organizations are on the ground, we step back, ready to respond to the next disaster when the need arises.
In 2020, the Point Clear Disaster Response Team set up in Fairhope to feed those in need after Hurricane Sally visited the Eastern Shore. On subsequent days, the team also headed south to the Gulf Shores United Methodist Church with 365 meals to serve.
The Disaster Response Team was in action in Clarke County (Grove Hill) where the area was hard hit hard by Hurricane Zeta. Power was still out Wednesday to over 50% of the area. Over 1800 hot meals were served to area residents. Great work Tom Burkett and team.
