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
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
There’s a blog post on Camp ASCCA’s website called “How Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief saved our summer,” and camp director Matt Rickman said they mean it. “We’re pretty resilient, and we would’ve tried to figure it out, but the disaster relief team has been a lifesaver,” Rickman said. Camp ASCCA — which
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
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,”
