Hurricane Milton hit Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm Wednesday evening (Oct.9), knocking out power to reportedly 3 million people before rolling on into the Atlantic. Baptist response teams are ready to hit the ground running.
First Baptist Church Hudson, like many congregations in Florida, is no stranger to the aftermath of natural disasters. The community is still reeling from the devastation of Hurricane Helene, which left the church’s food pantry campus …
Baptist relief efforts already underway in Florida following Hurricane Helene are temporarily on “pause” as Milton rolls toward the Tampa Bay area, but teams are ready to go once the storm passes.
The Arkansas Baptist Disaster Relief box ministry based out of Baring Cross Baptist Church in Sherwood recently deployed to Morgan City, Louisiana, where the unit ministered to people impacted by Hurricane Francine.
Connor Johnson shares how he nearly lost his life at the age of 19 in a drug deal gone bad. “I am going to die tonight,” he told himself right before the gun fired. But it turns out that God had other plans for him.
“Hamas overestimated the power of its patron, that would be Iran — and as others have noted — it underestimated the strength of Israel,” noted Albert Mohler, president of Southern Seminary, on his daily podcast “The Briefing.”
As Florida Baptists continue helping impacted communities following Hurricane Helene, the state is now bracing for more damage with Hurricane Milton expected to make landfall later this week.
“At the end of the day, God is the originator, designer and inventor of it all,” said Pruitt, national Next Gen director for the North American Mission Board. “He also gets to define what things are.”
George Bullard asks, “What does it mean to be categorized as a soaring, strong, stumbling, struggling or spiritless association? Is your association stuck in a virtual escape room because of its assessment?”
Tennessee Baptists hold largest-ever Disaster Relief training in state. “I was expecting about 200 participants but we doubled that. I was blown away,” said Wes Jones, Disaster Relief specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.
