PACIFIC – 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 St. Louisans in need. Rhonda Myers, a member of South Ridge Baptist in Jefferson City, is one of those lay chaplains. By day, she is a licensed professional counselor. But over New Years, she took her professional role, donned a yellow DR hat, and lent a friendly ear to … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief responding to flood disaster
Missouri Baptist Convention Disaster Relief (MBC DR) teams converged on communities throughout the state in recent days to aid victims of historic flooding caused by more than 10 inches of rain over a three-day period that began the day after Christmas, leaving thousands homeless and killing at least 24 people in Missouri and Illinois. MBC Executive Director John Yeats made a New Year’s Eve plea for donations to the convention’s Disaster Relief teams and asked people to pray for volunteer … [Read more...]
BREAKING: Yeats urges support of Disaster Relief in response to widespread flooding
Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Director John Yeats issued a plea for support for Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief efforts following the wide spread flooding. Following is the message issued by Yeats: "I’m writing to ask you to support Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief efforts in flood-swollen areas throughout our state. As I write, MBC DR Strategist Dwain Carter is helping coordinate a massive, long-term effort to help victims of flooding along the Mississippi, Missouri, and Meramec … [Read more...]
Missouri Disaster Relief blesses Oklahoma in wake of ice storms
YUKON, Okla. – Three inches of ice and downed trees and powerlines are a pain for everyone, but for David and Natasha, it was insult to injury. “We were finishing up a job and a guy pulled up and wanted to know if we were a tree service,” said Danny Middleton, one of eight Disaster Relief volunteers from Missouri to respond to Thanksgiving ice storms in central Oklahoma. “I said, ‘No, but we’re from Southern Baptists in Missouri and we do clean up after tornadoes, hurricanes and ice … [Read more...]
DR project a gospel light… two years later
JOHNSONVILLE, S.C. – The Hadlers – Sharon and Arlin – and others from the Cape Girardeau Baptist Association Disaster Relief crews were exhausted, wet, and ready for a break. They had joined disaster relief volunteers from churches across the country in the aftermath of record rain that left South Carolina standing in water. Once the waters receded, it was time for hours, days and weeks of mud-out and recovery. Seven Missourians were hauling out wet insulation from beneath a modular home … [Read more...]
Offering slated for Tuesday at 2015 annual meeting
SPRINGFIELD — A special offering will be taken during the Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting Oct. 27 at 11:15 a.m. to benefit the Disaster Relief collegiate summer missionary program. The program completed its second year this summer, with six summer missionaries from around the state getting the opportunity to be Christ’s hands and feet in Missouri and across the country. Over the course of the summer, they were trained in mud out, chainsaw, manning shower trailers, childcare … [Read more...]
DR students already responding to Okla. floods
JEFFERSON CITY - Most students either take the summer off to sleep late or find a job to help pay for tuition, but six young people from across Missouri have signed up for early wake up calls and long hours without pay as Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (DR) interns. Jessica Sherrill of Cadet Baptist Church, Ashley Palmer and Lindey Broyles of First Baptist, Diamond, Caleb Brubaker, of First Baptist, St. James, Ryan Steel of First Baptist, Bismarck, and Gabriel Craig of Esther Baptist, … [Read more...]
Missouri disaster relief on the ground in Nepal
GHORKA, Nepal – Walking as many as 12 hours a day to remote regions still unreached by other aid, two Missouri Baptists are assessing needs and bringing in food and water on foot in this remote area of Nepal. Michael Updegrave of First Baptist, Wellington, and Kevin Bailey of Southern Hills, Bolivar, and a third volunteer from Virginia are part of a RAT team (Rapid Assistance Team) working with Baptist Global Response (BGR) in the wake of the April 25 7.8 magnitude earthquake that killed … [Read more...]
Restoring lives in a shattered community
CARTHAGE — After an EF5 tornado carved a mile-wide path of destruction through the city of Joplin on May 22, 2011, Thad Beeler surveyed the damage in his parents’ home. The tornado uprooted three large trees, throwing them on top of the house. It flipped his parents’ car and wrapped it around a neighbor’s tree. It ripped a six-foot-wide patio door out of the side of the house and drove a block of wood through three walls and a toaster oven. But Beeler thought it odd that family photos and … [Read more...]
DR leaders recognized
JEFFERSON CITY – Volunteer leaders for Missouri Disaster Relief gathered for a DR Roundtable at the Baptist Building here, March 13-14. During the roundtable, these leaders were challenged and encouraged by Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Executive Director John Yeats and MBC team leaders Matt Kearns (leadership development) and Rick Hedger (partnership missions), as well as DR specialists from around the nation—including Oklahoma Baptist DR Director Sam Porter and National DR Director … [Read more...]
Missouri answers Bucket Challenge
JEFFERSON CITY – Baptist Global Response (BGR) – the international disaster relief arm of Southern Baptists – is asking Missouri Baptists to help provide “buckets of hope” to sub-Saharan Africa, an area ravaged by HIV/AIDS. More than 23 million people there are living with HIV/AIDS, with more than a million dying each year. The “hospice kits” packed into a five-gallon bucket by Missouri Baptists is one way BGR has been able to open doors to share the gospel, said Missouri coordinators and … [Read more...]
A year after typhoon, Filipino island thriving
GIBITNGIL, the Philippines – What a difference a year – and a lot of Baptist sweat – make. Twelve months ago, nearly 100 kids scampered from a collapsing classroom as Typhoon Haiyan (called Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines) tore their school apart. They rode out the storm for hours crammed into in an unfinished concrete bathroom as winds topped 200 mph and 50-foot waves battered the rocky beach below. One year later, however, the island’s school classrooms are rebuilt and instead of … [Read more...]
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