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Alabama disaster relief team seeing ‘divine appointments’ as Indiana floodwaters recede
Cookie Baker says she always prays for divine appointments when she goes out on an Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief trip. And in Indiana, she’s seeing those divine appointments, even though her team has only been there two days. “Yesterday (Aug. 20) was our first day of work with assessors,” said Baker, ABDR white hat leader in Anderson, Indiana, where 37 volunteers from Alabama are working to help those affected by historic flooding. The team has
Disaster relief volunteers work in Mississippi after winter storm, in Alabama after tornado, winds
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
Alabama volunteer says disaster relief is ‘great way to spend a vacation,’ spends 4+ months in North Carolina
Roger Bailey said when she told him what the kiddie pool was for, he couldn’t believe it. He had gone to her family’s home — a trailer half crushed by a fallen tree — to see how he and other disaster relief volunteers could help. “The couple had three young children, and the father had done what he could to demolish the half that got crushed, and he covered the end with a tarp,” Bailey said. “So
Alabama Baptists pray, give to help those affected by Texas floods
As people across the nation continue to grieve the flooding tragedy in Texas, Alabama Baptists are among those who are responding and praying. Financial gifts given to Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief are being used to help those in Texas who were affected, said Rick Lance, executive director of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions. “On behalf of Alabama Baptists, your State Board of Missions has already provided funds for disaster relief efforts in Central