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April 28 Storm Update #2
At the request of local Emergency Management Agency (EMA) Alabama Baptist Disaster relief will be moving six chainsaw teams and heavy equipment into Limestone County in the early AM. Chaplain teams will also be joining the chainsaw teams for community support as soon as they too can be deployed. Updates
April 28 Storm Update
Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief has received confirmed and preliminary damage reports resulting from a possible tornado impact in the Limestone County area of Athens. Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief leadership is in contact with local Emergency Management. Area District Coordinators have been placed on “Alert” status and damage assessment will commence
Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers honored
During the recent 2014 State Disaster Relief Training weekend at Shocco Springs, April 3–5, more than 450 disaster relief personnel participated, and three volunteers were recognized by Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM) staff for unique contributions to Alabama’s disaster relief response efforts. Pictured are (l to r) Mel
Students commissioned for summer missions also offered first-ever DR training
In April 2011 when a tornado outbreak blew through Alabama leaving huge destruction in its wake, people statewide — including college students — were anxious to offer help in any way they could. Matthew Dunson, currently a sophomore mechanical engineering major at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), recalls
April 7 Storm Update
Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief is currently responding to April 7 early morning storm damage. Damage assessments are currently underway and local teams have been, and/or will be, activated to assist according to needs. Updates will be provided as the response demands. Please note the following information: – Flash flooding has
Church responds after Washington State mudslide
Oso Community Chapel is the only church on a 30-mile stretch of State Route 530, the roadway sliced in half March 22 by a massive landslide in Oso, Wash., that killed at least 25 people and destroyed some 50 homes. None of Oso Chapel’s 80 members were injured and none
Alabama Baptist students serve in Sandy Rebuild effort, other areas
It is spring break time, and some Alabama Baptist students are choosing missions and ministry for their week’s agenda.A Baptist Campus Ministries (BCM) group from Troy University, along with state missionary Chris Mills, headed to Staten Island, N.Y., to help in the continued Sandy Rebuild effort through Southern Baptist Disaster
Escambia Storm Update
Escambia Associational Disaster Relief Coordinator Peyton Williams has reported that their disaster relief unit responded to damage from the March 16 storms and they provided immediate response to the local area as needed. He said if there is a need for additional support of DR resources he will not hesitate to
DeKalb County DR Update
I have been in contact with DeKalb County Disaster Relief Leadership this morning. Assessment in the north Ft. Payne area and surrounding communities has been underway since daylight today, February 21. Currently there have been no needs reported that would involve disaster relief units. The Disaster Relief office will provide
Alabama Baptist churches minister to those affected by unexpected winter storm
Restrooms and free coffee. For some, those words posted on a sign outside Green Valley Baptist Church, Hoover, were the first glimmer of hope. Typically the forecast of snow in Alabama brings happiness and hope for a flurry or two but Jan. 28 brought much more than what meteorologists, or
Alabama Baptists encouraged to be prepared, equipped for disasters
During the month of February all Alabama Baptists are being encouraged to schedule a special disaster relief emphasis in their churches. The Disaster Preparedness Month emphasis features a church preparedness plan, a family preparedness plan and a special disaster relief offering. “Disasters will occur in our communities,” said Mel Johnson,
Midwest Tornadoes
The State Board of Missions has been in contact with Baptist leadership in Illinois to offer disaster relief support and continued prayers in the wake of the November 17 tornadoes in the Midwest. Damage assessments are being made and Alabama Baptists stand ready to assist with disaster relief efforts when