The Tennessee Baptist Mission Board has established two warehouses in Elizabethton to help residents who lost their homes to Hurricane Helene as part of Arise and Build, the repair and new build arm of Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief.
Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of TBMB, established an Arise and Build task force in November the help homeowners and churches that were dramatically affected by the hurricane.
More than 1,200 homes and 11 Tennessee Baptist churches were destroyed or significantly damaged.
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The warehouses are being operated in conjunction with God’s Warehouse, a ministry of Nolachucky Baptist Association in Morristown that is led by Don Owen, the association’s disaster relief director.
Fully operational
David Baines, a volunteer from Elizabethton, is overseeing the first warehouse which is fully operational. Baines noted the warehouse already has provided building materials to repair teams and he is excited about the efforts to help residents of northeast Tennessee repair their homes.
“It has been amazing to see the materials and items that have been given to the warehouse. There are more givers than takers,” he said.
Owen said they are working closely with Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief’s incident command center at Grace Baptist Church in Elizabethton to coordinate getting supplies to residents in northeast Tennessee who were affected by the hurricane.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written and originally published by Baptist and Reflector.
