As the week begins, Southern Baptist disaster relief teams are on the move serving meals and clearing debris after Hurricane Isaias hit Florida’s Panhandle Oct. 9.
This story has been updated since originally published. Your first question about this latest weather threat may involve how to pronounce Hurricane Isaias. For those
Terry Lamb opened his front door on the morning of July 11, he expected to see rain. Instead, he saw floodwater creeping toward his Tennessee house.
The response to the recent damaging storms in Indiana showed the strength of Southern Baptist cooperation when a disaster overwhelms the capacity of one state.
Deadly flooding and mudslides along the Nepal-Tibet border — with terrifying images of the disaster caught on video — have claimed more than 500 lives.
Deadly earthquakes continue to wreak havoc overseas. Over the weekend, a magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck eastern Indonesia, reportedly killing at least 53 people. Colombia’s death toll from a magnitude-7.4 earthquake a week earlier has risen to at least 288, with more than 200 people missing.
A 20-foot-tall white cross still stands in front of the Center Point, Texas, fire station, the words “Letters to Heaven” written just above a mail slot at its base to accept notes addressed to campers and counselors killed in the flood at Camp Mystic last July.
Ron and Carolyn Knowlton have spent nearly their entire marriage serving side by side, but in recent years their shared calling has taken them into disaster zones across Arkansas and beyond through Arkansas Baptist Disaster Relief, where they serve primarily in chaplaincy and assessment roles.
Send Relief has released a new resource available for churches to use this Sunday: a video from International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood, on the ground in La Guaira, Venezuela.
Texans on Mission volunteers deployed on Memorial Day to Amarillo to assist in fire recovery efforts after parts of the Texas Panhandle suffered property losses from a major wildfire Sunday, May 17.
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