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 […]
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 […]
Disaster relief feeding team ‘saves summer’ for Camp ASCCA after lightning strike

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 […]
Disaster relief teams at work in Alabama, Tennessee following tornadoes

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 […]
Saturday’s storms: Calera Baptist, Mignon Baptist damaged; disaster relief teams at work

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 […]
Tuscumbia’s Westside Baptist loses steeple in storms; disaster relief crews at work

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 […]
Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers wrap up work for now

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 […]
Disaster relief work wrapping up in South Carolina, moving to North Carolina

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 […]
Disaster relief volunteers continue long-haul work nearly a month after Helene

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 […]
Alabama Baptist DR teams helping thousands in South Carolina, Georgia

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 […]