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.
Key Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers from across the country gathered in Louisville recently to be trained to help effectively respond to national emergencies.
As two major wildfires continued to threaten homes and communities in southeast Georgia over the weekend, Georgia Baptists were responding on multiple fronts, with Disaster Relief units supporting first responders on the scene and Mission Georgia working through local churches to help meet community needs.
Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief has begun deploying volunteers and equipment to help meet needs in Brantley County, where wildfires have destroyed dozens of structures and evacuations have been ordered.
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