After completing 18 mud-out jobs in flooded parts of Walterboro, South Carolina, Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief teams have packed up and returned home. John Hayes, who served as white hat leader on site for the past week, said they got a lot of work done, made good contacts in the community and

Mark Presswood said Mr. Addison was standing out by his mailbox in Walterboro, South Carolina, when Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers came to assess his neighbor’s property for flood damage. Mr. Addison didn’t have any damage, so he didn’t need help from their crews. But Presswood thought he might need a friend.

As waters are receding around the Edisto River in South Carolina, Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are hard at work helping area residents whose houses were flooded by Hurricane Debby on Aug. 3. David Hendon, the ABDR white hat leader on site in Walterboro, South Carolina, said teams from Baldwin and Clarke

Jerry McHan said he knew his team was exactly where God wanted them to be. As they helped homeowners in Huffman, Texas, with cleanup after Hurricane Beryl, they felt that affirmed over and over. “It’s a lot of hurting people out there, a lot of folks who really needed help,”

Thelma Goolsby said now that she’s back in Alabama, she wants to keep the feeling she had all last week. She saw God at work in Huffman, Texas, as Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief teams helped clean up trees and limbs after Hurricane Beryl. “It’s been glorious and humbling,” said Goolsby, who serves as

Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief work in Huffman, Texas, is “fast and furious,” said John Hayes, the ABDR white hat leader on site. “By the end of the day (July 15), we’ll have over 200 work requests,” he said. After Hurricane Beryl battered the area and knocked over trees, an ABDR admin

The first Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are on the ground in Huffman, Texas, and getting ready to help this weekend with cleanup in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl. “We’re going to provide chain saw support to the community,” said John Hayes, the white hat leader for ABDR in Huffman. “Right now,

HOUSTON – Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) units have deployed in and around Houston up into Texarkana in response to Hurricane Beryl, which made landfall early Monday morning, July 8. Units with the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention (SBTC), Texans on Mission, Arkansas and Alabama are providing meals, showers and

As Jimmy Bolin walked up to his church to survey the tornado damage Jan. 9, he said one thing stood out, and it wasn’t that the damage was “bad, really bad.” “On our sign for New Year’s, I’d put, ‘Praise the Lord in 2024,’” said Bolin, who serves as pastor

Following a tornado that ripped through her Madison, Tennessee,  neighborhood and dropped a huge tree in her driveway — just missing her house — Brandie Lee didn’t know where to start with the cleanup. During the storm, she received a text from a neighbor saying, “Um, our shed is in

About a week and a half after Hurricane Idalia hit the Florida Gulf Coast, Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief work is still ongoing in Florida and Georgia. Mark Wakefield, state disaster relief strategist, said volunteers are just days away from wrapping up their work cleaning out flooded homes and serving meals to the

When Bob Cooper sat down beside Mr. D, the man gave him one directive — he wasn’t allowed to talk about religion or politics. “When Hurricane Ian came through Arcadia, Florida, he and his wife only had minor damage, but she called and asked for a chaplain to come because