MATCH will utilize a cross-sectional team of professionals to develop and implement a focused community-based participatory approach for enhancing community involvement in preparing for and responding to emerging infectious diseases as a very real threat to community health. In formalizing this effort, HOTL will engage its existing Faith-In-Action Network of churches and community-based organizations as partners in fostering community engagement in promoting increased preparedness by examining what the churches did to support social distancing in mitigating the spread, how they responded to the needs of their congregants, what they will need to recover, how can they better prepare for the future, and support projects designed to explore innovative preparedness solutions. While the overall focus is on preparedness for the next threat, the project will also engage the partners in a full, public health driven continuum of response, recovery, and mitigation. This project will use the risk reduction definition of a disaster as a “serious disruption of the functioning of a church or organization in a community, involving widespread human and economic losses and impacts which exceed the ability of the affected church or organization to cope using its own resources” in the face of a public health emergency.