{"id":29064,"date":"2018-08-11T09:33:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T14:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcpathway.local\/?p=29064"},"modified":"2018-08-15T09:37:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T14:37:42","slug":"nambs-send-relief-aims-to-bring-compassion-aid-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/2018\/08\/11\/nambs-send-relief-aims-to-bring-compassion-aid-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"NAMB\u2019s SEND Relief aims to bring compassion, aid DR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">ALPHARETTA, Ga. \u2013 Seeking to fill gaps as Southern Baptists serve disaster survivors and other people in need, the North American Mission Board two years ago began Send Relief. The ministry identifies five main areas of need: poverty, refugees and internationals, foster care and adoption, human trafficking and disaster response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWhile Send Relief aims to send hope by meeting material needs, the primary reason Send Relief exists is to send the eternal hope of the gospel through compassion ministries,\u201d David Melber, the president of Send Relief told <i>The Pathway<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Aside from its own national strategy, Send Relief seeks to equip local churches to learn how to meet these needs in their own communities and share the hope of Jesus. For example,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>churches in some states may not have access to ministries like the Missouri Baptist Children\u2019s Home, which facilitates foster care, adoption and human trafficking rescue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">On the Disaster Relief front, Send Relief has its own national disaster director who relates directly to the 42 state Baptist conventions and their disaster relief ministries, including Missouri. Like most state conventions, the infrastructure for disaster relief and other recognized compassion ministries is supported by the Cooperative Program. Additional funding for equipment, fuel and other expenses comes from individual gifts, grants, endowments and other sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Melber said that in addition to its traditional disaster relief responsibilities, and paying for an online training platform and site\/volunteer management software for use by state DR ministries, NAMB brings Send Relief resources into play in some disaster settings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cBy engaging volunteers who are not currently involved, we can help fill some of those gaps,\u201d Melber said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Send Relief does not respond to the vast majority of disasters; Send Relief primarily focuses on the largest regional and national events that draw significant interest from untrained volunteers. That can mean engaging with an immediate response, allowing time for state DR ministries to deploy, looking for places to connect with less-trained volunteers to serve, very short-term opportunities (sometime a few hours, or just a few days). This also creates an opportunity for non-SBC people and churches to serve following a disaster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWhile leadership roles will always be filled by Southern Baptist believers, we believe including non-SBC and even un-churched volunteers is an effective way to share the gospel with them,\u201d Melber said. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago the North American Mission Board began Send Relief, in order to fill gaps as Southern Baptists served disaster survivors and other people in 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