Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief teams are hard at work in Selmer, Tennessee, and in Alabama’s Colbert and Lauderdale counties following a devastating set of storms that moved across the Midwest and the South in the past week. In Selmer, an EF-3 tornado killed five area residents and destroyed whole neighborhoods on

Two Alabama Baptist churches sustained damage in the storms last night (March 15) — Calera Baptist from a tornado, and Mignon Baptist in Sylacauga from flooding. Mignon Baptist was sheltering between 80 and 100 people in its basement-level fellowship hall when the water started pouring in, according to Pastor Jeremy Brown. The church has

Westside Baptist Church in Tuscumbia lost its steeple when an EF-1 tornado ripped through the city late Feb. 15. The tornado was part of a large line of storms that marched through the entire state that night and in the early morning hours of Feb. 16, producing strong straight-line winds and

The last Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief team that was deployed to help those affected by Hurricane Helene has returned home, though others may go again after Thanksgiving. Mark Wakefield, state disaster relief strategist, said a 28-person team from Calhoun Baptist Association came back to Alabama Sunday (Nov. 17). That team plus five others have

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