FIVE REPORTS! Southern Baptist relief efforts deployed throughout Southeast in response to historic Helene

The death toll has topped 100 as residents of the southeast United States face the effects of Hurricane Helene. Search and rescue teams are still working in multiple states as people struggle to find adequate water and electricity.

Pastor Dewey Moede

October 1, 2024

90 (1) — Photo From Baptist Press. Hurricane Helene brought widespread and heavy flooding to western North Carolina. North Carolina Dept. of Transportation photo.

Photo From Baptist Press. Volunteers assisting at the DR warehouse in Greensboro, N.C., preparing trucks to deliver materials and meals to western NC following Hurricane Helene. Send Relief photo

We thank the Lord for all those who are helping the thousands of victims, perhaps millions. Sharon and I are heartsick at the lives lost and all the devastation. Lord have mercy. Can you even imagine the pain? Many folks are still missing. Pray Team Jesus! Lord help all the people and protect the emergency workers. Please Lord, let those that are lost be found alive. In the powerful and loving name of Jesus, Amen!

This disaster will take years and years to recover from. Some many never recover. Think about that today. Count your blessings. Stay close to JESUS!

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Pray now please and all days to God Almighty.

Baptist Press

By Brandon Elrod, posted September 30, 2024 in Disaster Relief, Send Relief

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP) – More than 100 people have died from the havoc wrought by Hurricane Helene, and Send Relief is supporting dozens of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) sites deployed throughout the Southeast: Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia.

On Monday, Sept. 30, Send Relief shipped out a semi-truck load supplies from its Ashland, Ky., warehouse to support disaster relief sites throughout the Southeast. SBDR teams from 14 different state conventions have mobilized so far.

Hurricane Helene generated some of the most widespread damage from a single event, stretching more than 600 miles from where the storm made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 storm up into southwest Virginia.

Florida SBDR established feeding and recovery sites at First Baptist Church of Perry, Fla., and First Baptist Church of Live Oak, Florida, with volunteers traveling from the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, Alabama, Ohio and Mississippi to support the response.

“We are grateful for the support of Southern Baptists in this response,” said David Coggins Florida Baptist SBDR director. “This has been a devastating storm across the Southeast, and here at First Baptist Church Perry, we are serving a community that has just been hit by its third storm in 13 months.” More Here

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