Around 50 Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are at work in Elkhorn City, Kentucky, helping residents recover from the state’s worst flood on record. Cookie Baker, who is serving at the command center there, said while every disaster relief deployment has its challenges, access to the homeowners has been especially difficult in Elkhorn City. “The mountain goes straight up here, so the houses are built along the creek because it’s the only flat place,” she

Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are providing flood recovery, laundry services and chaplain ministry in Elkhorn City, Kentucky, as the area copes with historic flooding. The Alabama DR volunteers are part of a multistate effort in eastern Kentucky, where entire towns were submerged as heavy rains caused flash floods in the overnight hours of July 27. It’s the worst flooding the state has faced in its history. “The destruction is absolutely catastrophic everywhere you look,

When the pastor told David Hendon that the church’s well had run dry, he didn’t understand what they meant at first. “My dad was a well driller, but the pastor called it a ‘fountain’ instead of a well, so it took me a minute to figure out what he was talking about,” Hendon said. But he soon would see for himself — the small church near Romania’s border with Ukraine had a well that was