Who We Are

  • Emergency relief that assists people afflicted by conflict or disaster.

  • Partnerships with churches to contribute to spiritual and social transformation.

  • Witness to Jesus Christ by life, deed, word, and sign that encourages people to respond to the Gospel.

  • Spiritual: Deploying relief teams with a primary objective of providing prayer and Biblical encouragement to those suffering and displaced.

  • Physical: Meeting the physical needs of those displaced by natural disaster through providing resources that will alleviate the need for; Food, ​Clothing, Temporary housing, Debris removal, Hygienic needs, Medical assistance, Communication needs, Household goods.

CALVARY DISASTER RELIEF (CDR) is a regional and international, faith-based, disaster relief organization working exclusively for the benefit of disaster distressed people with needs in these areas:

Where We Started

Our heart for disaster ministry started with the Kobe Earthquake in Japan in 1995.
Since then, we have deployed teams to:

  • Kobe, Japan, Earthquake 1995

  • Ground Zero, New York City, September 11, Terrorist Attack 2001

  • Thailand Andaman Coast, Tsunami 2005

  • Bay St. Louis, Louisiana (Hurricane Katrina) 2005

  • Houston, Texas (Hurricane Ike) 2008

  • Sendai, Japan, Tsunami 2011

  • Joplin, Missouri, Tornado 2011

  • Ocean Grove, New Jersey (Hurricane Sandy) 2012

  • Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Flooding 2016

  • Houston, Texas (Hurricane Harvey) 2017

  • San Juan, Puerto Rico (Hurricane Maria) 2017

  • Chiapas, Mexico, Earthquake 2017

  • Panama City Beach, Florida (Hurricane Michael) October 2018

  • Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (Hurricane Florence) October 2018

  • Bahamas (Hurricane Dorian) November 2019

  • La Habra, CA (Covid 19 “Porch Ministry”) March 2020

  • Dequincy, Louisiana (Hurricane Laura) August 2020

  • Foley, Alabama (Hurricane Sally) September 2020

  • Yorba Linda, California (Blue Ridge Fire) October 2020

  • Baton Rouge, Louisiana (Hurricane Ida) September 2021

  • The Rock Calvary Chapel Punta Gorda, Florida (Hurricane Ian) 2022 

  • Calvary Chapel Central Maui, Hawaii (Lahaina Fire) Summer/Fall 2023

  • Calvary Chapel Asheville, North Carolina (Hurricanes Helene & Milton) 2024

  • Calvary Chapel Monrovia, California (SoCal Fires) January 2025

What We Believe

STATEMENT OF FAITH:

  • We believe that the scriptures, both the Old and the New Testaments, are fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, without error, and are the final authority for the church and the believer.

  • We believe that there is one God, Eternally existent in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

  • We believe in the absolute deity and full humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • We believe in His virgin birth, His sinless life, the authenticity of His miracles, His present mediating work in heaven.

  • We believe in the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit.

  • We believe He gives life, He sanctifies, and He empowers and comforts all believers.

  • We believe that man was originally created sinless. Tempted by Satan, man fell and thereby brought the whole race under the condemnation of eternal separation from God.

  • We believe that all men who reject the atonement of Christ will suffer in a literal hell for eternity.

  • We believe that the Church is the living body of Jesus Christ composed of all true believers. The present work of the church is the worship of God, the perfecting of the saints, and the evangelization of the world.

  • We believe in the Bodily return of the Lord Jesus Christ to consummate our salvation and establish His glorious kingdom.
    “And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.” 2 CORINTHIANS 5:15