Five weeks after Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida, Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief teams are packing up to come home. “It’s faster than I thought — I anticipated us being there at least two more weeks,” said Mark Wakefield, state disaster relief strategist. Alabama Baptist teams — which have been based

Becky Noland knows what it’s like to be at your wit’s end and have someone show up with food. “I grew up on the Gulf Coast in Texas and experienced what it’s like to go through hurricanes,” she said. And after she moved to Alabama, she often would go back

Cliff Knight said he knew God had arranged the visit before he even got to the house. It was his first day as an Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief chaplain, and he was riding around Arcadia, Florida, with Rich Power, an assessor visiting homeowners who had requested help in the wake

Arcadia, Florida, was Candace McIntosh’s home for nine years after college, the place where she experienced her first sense of community as an adult and where she felt the call to ministry. So it’s especially hard for her to see the community under water since Hurricane Ian made landfall in

Thanks to WSFA-TV in Montgomery for this report about Yellow Shirt Army volunteers preparing to deploy under the leadership of State Missionary Mark Wakefield, Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief strategist. If you would like to contribute to this effort, please click the GIVE button at the top of this page.  

Around 50 Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are at work in Elkhorn City, Kentucky, helping residents recover from the state’s worst flood on record. Cookie Baker, who is serving at the command center there, said while every disaster relief deployment has its challenges, access to the homeowners has been especially