Giving a cup of cold water in Jesus’ name
Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are wrapping up their work in Clearwater, South Carolina, today (Nov. 1) and preparing to join the cleanup effort in western North Carolina. “We will shut down in Clearwater and bring most of our operation home,” said Mark Wakefield, state disaster relief strategist. ABDR has had
It’s been almost a month since Hurricane Helene made landfall and battered the Southeast with winds and floods. In some places, there’s still much to be done. But Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are among those still hard at work helping people get back on their feet. “A lot of our teams
Cookie Baker’s map is full of digital pins — chainsaw jobs that have been done, jobs that are ready to be done and job requests that still need to be assessed. In total, as of Monday (Oct. 7), 643 people had requested help with tree removal in the wake of
Tony Wolfe said as he drives around his state, he sees months and months of work to do in the wake of Hurricane Helene. “This may be the biggest disaster at least in terms of wind damage that our state has ever known,” said Wolfe, executive director-treasurer for the South Carolina
The road to recovery is “going to be a long operation” in the states affected by Hurricane Helene and “will need a significant number of volunteers,” said Mark Wakefield, Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief strategist. “We need our trained volunteers to commit to go, and if they can stay longer, to stay longer,”
After completing 18 mud-out jobs in flooded parts of Walterboro, South Carolina, Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief teams have packed up and returned home. John Hayes, who served as white hat leader on site for the past week, said they got a lot of work done, made good contacts in the community and
