No major updates have been released today (April 12) regarding missionary Josh Sullivan, who was taken at gunpoint April 10, while delivering a sermon at Fellowship Baptist Church in Motherwell, South Africa. Requests for prayer continue.
Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers have kept busy during the past week as a relentless wave of storms continues to pound the region with deadly floods and tornadoes from Texas to Ohio.
At least seven people are dead after tornados ripped through parts of the South and Midwest this week (April 2–4), and more life-threatening severe weather is expected through the weekend.
Mal Underwood, a Brentwood Baptist DR volunteer, described the relief effort as a multi-stage process. “Flood relief is about triaging first responses — getting the mud out and helping families return to a degree of normalcy,” he said.
For Jason Gibson, lunch was becoming a problem — a potentially “6,000 calories” a day problem.
Doug Benningfield baptized five individuals who represented four generations of one family.
“When the doctor says you have stage four, he says hope is off the table,” Jay Barbier explained. “But when I get to lean in on Jesus, I have hope in Him.”
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