Jerome Clayton Ross

Crisis and Emergency Management and Preparedness for the African-American Church Community

Church Leadership & Ministry

“This work summons religious organizations to be proactive in emergency preparedness. Recognizing the insufficiency of government resources and defining disaster theologically as a spiritual problem, Urquhart argues that the church's welfare depends upon crisis and emergency management preparedness. Providing a plethora of disparate ideas and assorted biblical texts, he contends that Crisis and Emergency Management and Preparedness is consistent with the church's mission as sanctuary. The potential value of his project lies in calling awareness to such structural deficiencies and initiating conversation among ecclesiastical and government officials in devising appropriate survival strategies.”