David Hendon said at the Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief command center in Greenville, Mississippi, the calls for help just keep coming.
“I haven’t seen them with the phone down yet,” he said of the volunteers in the office set up at Emmanuel Baptist Church. “It’s been ringing off the hook.”
Greenville and the surrounding rural communities were hit hard in late January by Winter Storm Fern, which covered the area in ice, toppled trees, left thousands without power and killed more than 20 in the state as temperatures plummeted.
ABDR chainsaw teams from Calhoun and Walker Baptist associations were out working today (Feb. 2) in Greenville, clearing trees from the yards of affected homeowners. They will be joined soon by teams from Colbert-Lauderdale and Sand Mountain Baptist associations.
The laundry unit from Winston Baptist Association is also on site, as well as a cooking team from Pickens and Birmingham Baptist associations and “a few other places,” said Hendon, the white hat leader on site.
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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.
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