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 Baptist State Board of Missions. “On behalf of Alabama Baptists, your State Board of Missions has already provided funds for disaster relief efforts in Central

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 stands for Alabama’s Special Camp for Children and Adults — hosts camp sessions in Jacksons’ Gap for those with intellectual, physical and developmental disabilities. And

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 April 3, according to David Hendon, the white hat leader on site for ABDR. “It was just really, really bad,” he said. But Hendon is