JEFFERSON CITY – More than 30 Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers departed Oct. 11 for the East Coast to bring help, hope and healing to those affected by Hurricane Matthew. Red Cross officials have asked Southern Baptists to prepare up to 300,000 meals each day, a task Missouri Baptist Convention executive director John Yeats called “a huge challenge and a great gospel/missional opportunity.” “Please pray for our volunteers and for the victims of the hurricane, many of whom need … [Read more...]
Missouri’s chaplains lend a hand – and an ear
BATON ROUGE, La. – It’s not as glamorous as wielding a chainsaw or cranking through a few thousand meals a day, but chaplains are playing a role in Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (DR) as volunteers bring help, hope and healing to Louisiana flood victims. Tony Lee, a volunteer chaplain from First Baptist Church, Salisbury, worked alongside a crew doing mud out and debris removal. Like all DR chaplains, Lee was responsible not only for listening to the homeowner, but also for observing and … [Read more...]
Mo. DR still working Baton Rouge floods
BATON ROUGE, La. – The numbers swirling around the flood recovery efforts in Baton Rouge are overwhelming. Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Volunteers from 23 states – including more than 250 from Missouri Baptist churches – prepared more than half a million meals since mid-August. They tore out 490 homes’ drywall and sanitized 531 more and shoveled tons of muds in the Louisiana summer humidity. But other numbers stand out as well: 888 gospel presentations and 112 salvations. Feeding … [Read more...]
Missouri volunteers needed for Louisiana floods
BATON ROUGE – Leaders are desperately calling for volunteers as some 40,000 homes are still soggy from flooding in Louisiana. “The vast majority of those homes were not in a floodplain,” said Dwain Carter, director of Disaster Relief for the Missouri Baptist Convention (DR). “It’s just street after street, neighborhood after neighborhood with water in homes. If you drive by a ditch, it’s full of trailer homes, cars, trucks and motorhomes.” Currently, there are four Missouri Baptist … [Read more...]
Mo. DR volunteers care for kids
ST. LOUIS – As the young mother scooped up her son after a morning of Southern Baptist preaching and business, Angie Hurd couldn’t help but overhear the conversation surrounding their reunion. “The three-year-old said, ‘Mommy, I cried and I cried and I cried and then I loved it,’” said Hurd, Childcare Coordinator for Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (DR). “That’s why we do what we do. This program allows moms the opportunity to stay and take part in the annual meeting without having to … [Read more...]
Missouri DR helps wrap up Nepal recovery
KATHMANDU, Nepal – Dwain Carter jolted awake at 4:30 a.m., May 14. Still jet lagged from his flights to Nepal, he was instantly able to identify that he was feeling an earthquake. With a magnitude of just 4.4, the tremor was nowhere near as strong as the April 25, 2015 7.8 magnitude earthquake that claimed more than 8,000 lives and injured 21,000 in this Hindu country sandwiched between China and India. Carter, the director of disaster relief for the Missouri Baptist Convention, was in … [Read more...]
5 years later, Joplin bouncing back from deadly tornado
JOPLIN – With sirens wailing, Greg Hailey closed his Bible, put it safely in a nylon satchel and used it to rest his head. Harmony Heights Baptist Church had no basement, but Hailey and 52 others took cover as best they could as a tornado interrupted their evening worship service May 22, 2011. “There were about 10 or so of us in the library,” he said, “and there were others in the nursery. That’s the older part of the church with smaller rooms and better-built walls. We had maybe 10 … [Read more...]
Mo. Baptists respond to Texas floods
HOUSTON, Texas – While spring has thus far been rather mild in Missouri, Texas has been hit hard by floods and Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief units have answered the call for help. Ten Missouri volunteers are assisting Disaster Relief (DR) units from the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention (SBTC) in a feeding unit, and will remain there for ten days, prepping an average of 6,000 meals a day. While they were there, a windstorm struck and destroyed the kitchen, which took a day to … [Read more...]
Northwest BSU tackles flood clean up
EUREKA – Forget playing in the beaches of Florida, a group of 30 students from Northwest Missouri State University’s Baptist Student Union chose to spend their spring break along the cold, damp banks of the Big River cleaning up property damaged by January’s flooding. The students partnered with Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief and Central Baptist Church here. They more or less adopted a half-mile of road along the Big River and poured all their efforts into three houses. “One house was … [Read more...]
18 accept Christ in wake of floods
ARNOLD – The initial disaster response is wrapping up, but the recovery for flood victims in the St. Louis area – and the follow up for more than 600 ministry contacts is just getting started. “There are still teams out working, and I think we have about another week, maybe a week and a half worth of work to do,” said Dwain Carter director of Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief. “We’ve closed the Arnold site and we’re still working in West Alton and Eureka.” The volunteer days are above … [Read more...]
MISSOURI FLOODING: God working through wet grind in Arnold
ARNOLD — The devastation and destruction in Arnold is unbelievable according to the disaster relief volunteers. “These homes are a complete tear out,” Arlin Hadler, disaster relief volunteer and director of the Cape Girardeau Association chainsaw recovery unit said, “the basements and the upper floors were flooded. We’ve gone in and torn out everything including furniture and appliances.” Hadler said the follow up to the demolition is to go in and power wash. “We spray the entire house … [Read more...]
Leaders plead for volunteers after floods wreak havoc
EUREKA – The waters from the Christmas floods have receded, but the cleanup job they left behind is pushing Missouri Baptists’ disaster relief (DR) resources and volunteers to the brink. “It’s bigger than people realize,” said Joe Banderman of California, the leader of the Missouri Baptist Convention’s(MBC) collegiate disaster relief team. “Unless you’re here, it’s hard to get an idea of the scope of the flooding.” In St Louis, Franklin, Jefferson, St. Charles and Lincoln Counties there … [Read more...]
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