Directories of Our Affiliate Stores to Help You Find What You Need:
 

Books, Bibles, Music, DVDs

Church Supplies

Novelties, Crafts, Gifts, More

Help By Giving Site: Salvation Army Site: Samaritan's Purse Help By Praying Article: Crisis: Concert of Prayer Book: Certain Peace in Uncertain Times: Embracing Prayer in an Anxious Age by Shirley Dobson

Bible Teachers, Learn to Help Students Process Crisis: Crisis Strikes Teacher Training Worksheet

Help By Serving

• Article: Comforting those grieving their loss (general)
• Article: Providing practical assistance (general)
• Article: Helping people process what has happened (general)
• Article: Coming along side of those in crisis (general)

Help With Preaching, Teaching, Devotionals

• Devotionals: Walk the Walk Even When It Hurts from Ministry Tools Resource Center
• Sermon: God in the face of disaster - Psalm 66

Help Children & Youth Process Disasters

• Article: 7 Ways to Bring your Children Peace After a Natural Disaster
• Article: Are You Disaster-Prepared?
• Article: Children and the Aftermath of Katrina: From fear to hope - helpful tips for other tragedies
• Article: Do Your Teachers Know How to Help Students in Crisis?
• Article: Natural Disasters: Helping Your Kids Cope with Overwhelming Tragedy
• Article: Talking to Children About Disaster - a disaster that happened somewhere else
• Article: Talking to Children About Disaster - directly effected by a disaster
• Article: Tips for Helping Kids Survive Tragedy
• Article: Where is God? Children and Grief
• Book: The Youth Worker's Guide for Helping Teenagers in Crisis by Rich Van Pelt, Jim Hancock
• Worksheet: Crisis Strikes Teacher Training Worksheet

Christian Relief Agencies

• Site: Salvation Army International
• Site: Samaritan's Purse International Relief
• Site: Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation
• Site: World Hope International
• Site: World Vision

Answering the Questions: Where is God? Why?

• Book: A Grace Disguised by Gerald Sittser
• Book: A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
• Book: Disappointment with God by Philip Yancey
• Book: If God Is Good . . . Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil by Randy Alcorn
• Book: Looking Up When Life is Looking Down by Beth Moore
• Book: Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find? by Philip Yancey
• Book: Second Guessing God: Hanging On When You Can't See His Plan by Brian Jones
• Book: Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy by Larry Crabb
• Book: Where is God When It Hurts by Philip Yancey
• Book: Why? Trusting God When You Don't Understand by Anne Graham Lotz
• Book: When Tragedy Strikes by Charles Stanley (Out of print but may find it used at Amazon.com)
• Article: 10 Reasons to Believe in a God Who Allows Suffering
• Article: Does God Care?
• Article: Death and Suffering Questions and Answers
• Article: Don't Just Survive, Thrive: Need for Perspective
• Article: How can an all-good God allow evil in the world?
• Article: When Bad Things Happen
• Booklet: When Tragedy Strikes: Finding Security In A Vulnerable World - Click to view as PDF.
• Booklet: Why Would A Good God Allow Suffering? - Click to view as PDF.
• Site: Help In Crisis - Seeking Answers in Life's Tragedies

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Help Children & Youth Process School Violence / Shootings

• Article: Children's Threats: When Are They Serious? - This is not a Christian article but you could find some possible help.
• Article: How Could a Loving God ... ?
• Article: Six “T’s” for Helping Kids through Trauma
Article: School Violence: Can You Keep Your Kids Safe?
• Article: School Violence: How Can We Keep Our Children Safe?
• Article: The Church's Response to Evil Acts
• Article: The "missing link" to school violence?
• Article: When Your Child Is Bullied
• Book: Protecting Your Child through Prayer by Karen Scalf Linamen
• Booklet: No More Victims by Frank Peretti (may be able to find a used copy)
• Worksheet: Crisis Strikes Teacher Training Worksheet

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Ways to Help in Terrorism Crisis

• Article: How Should a Christian Respond to Terrorism?
• Article: Barna Update: How America's Faith Has Changed Since 9-11
• Article: The World Trade Center and Our First Acts
• Article: How Shall We Minister to People After the World Trade Tower Terrorism of September 11, 2001?

Books to Help

• Book: Terrorism, Jihad and the Bible by John MacArthur
• Book: When Worlds Collide: Where is God in Terrorism, War, & Suffering? by R.C. Sproul

Children & Terrorism

• Article: Talking to your children about war and terrorist attacks
• Article: Talking to Kids About the 9/11 Anniversary
• Article: Talking with Children About War, Terrorism, and the News

Links to Other Helps

• At Christianity Today

Also Read:

• Article: The Church's Response to Evil Acts

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Miscellaneous Resources

• Article: Christian Perspectives on War
• Article: Help Your Church Bring Peace to Hurting People During War
• Article: What Every Christian, in Every Nation, Can Do During This Time of War
• Article: When is War Just?
• Article: Why Does God Allow War
• Tracts: Promises For Soldiers - pack of 25

On Children/Youth & War:

• Book: 130 Questions Children Ask About War and Terrorists
• Article: Talking to your children about war and terrorist attacks
• Article: Talking with Children About War, Terrorism, and the News
• Article: War: The Five Best/Worst Things You Can Say To Your Children

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