March 4, 2025 Stories

Continued Hurricane Helene response requires flexibility

A common motto among Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (MODR) volunteers is to always “Be Flexible”. That has certainly been the case with response to Hurricane Helene, which made landfall in Florida over four months ago. MODR volunteers initially responded by providing chainsaw teams, mass feeding teams and shower and laundry units to Augusta, Ga., in a matter of days. To that end, MODR volunteers completed 52 days of service, helped complete 477 chainsaw jobs, helped serve 84,780 meals and assisted with 2,500 showers and 1,300 loads of laundry before closing the operation on November 18th.

WEEK OF PRAYER: Coming to America

They didn’t want to do it, but they had no choice. Ecuadorians Eduardo Vera and his wife Juliana walked more than 1,900 miles with their family, pushing Juliana’s elderly father almost the whole way on a rusty, discarded tricycle they found on the first day of their journey.

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