Georgia DR team closing down after deadly September floods
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A month after monsoon-like rains resulted in “500-year” flooding in west metro Atlanta, mud-out, feeding and other recovery operations are finally standing down, according to Stuart Lang, disaster relief director for the Georgia Baptist Convention. |
Date Created: 10/23/2009 6:29:37 AM
As waters recede, hope rises among flooded Georgia communities
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Flies gather on a teddy bear draped over the lip of a garbage can standing in a front yard. Last week, Dorothy Everett and son Quintin stood in this spot watching water rise from Prosper Creek, a trickle of a stream that swelled into their community near South Cobb Drive in west Atlanta. |
Date Created: 10/5/2009 6:50:17 AM
Southern Baptists from nine state conventions providing relief to Ga. flood victims
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More than 300 volunteers from some 50 Southern Baptist disaster relief crews from nine state conventions are now on the scene in the west Atlanta areas ravaged by last week’s floods – preparing meals for victims and volunteers, cleaning out muddy homes and removing debris. |
Date Created: 10/2/2009 7:51:04 AM
SBC DR ramping up in flood-ravaged Ga.; victims can call ‘800’ number for help
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Thirty-four Southern Baptist disaster relief teams from six different state conventions are already on the scene or en route to assist victims from last week’s historic flooding in Georgia, which resulted in 10 deaths and damages estimated as high as $500 million across the northern half of the state. |
Date Created: 9/28/2009 11:59:30 AM
SBC Disaster Relief responds to Georgia flooding
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Michael Dover surveys the damage outside his home in Austell, Ga., his backyard a sea of muddy water. Looking at remnants of the water-soaked wood from his workshop piled in his driveway, Dover, like many other Atlanta residents, now faces the harsh reality of clean up. |
Date Created: 9/25/2009 1:50:56 PM
Hugo, 20 years ago, was disaster relief catalyst
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Before Hurricanes Katrina in 2005 and Andrew in 1992, there was Hugo. |
Date Created: 9/8/2009 7:55:45 AM
Preparedness ‘best defense’ against any natural disaster
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With June comes a new hurricane season, with hurricanes such as Ike, which in 2008, wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast of Texas, including these boats in the Galveston area. A disaster relief expert at the North American Mission Board says preparedness is the best defense against any disaster, whether a hurricane, tornado, flood or even the current swine flu pandemic. Photo by Laura Sikes. |
Date Created: 6/15/2009 12:30:51 PM
'Inland hurricane' gets D.R. from 10 states
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Nearly three weeks after what the National Weather Service called an "inland hurricane," 170 Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers from 10 state conventions have worked some 850 chainsaw jobs in southern Illinois. |
Date Created: 5/29/2009 7:33:51 AM
W.Va. flash floods trigger Baptist DR
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In the wake of flash floods that washed away rural roads and even mountainsides over six southern West Virginia counties on Mother's Day weekend, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief feeding units and mud-out crews remain on the scene. |
Date Created: 5/27/2009 12:39:30 PM
Disaster relief pioneer Archie King dies
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Archie Dennis King, a key leader in the early development of Southern Baptist disaster relief work, died May 12 at his home in Murfreesboro, Tenn., following an extended illness. |
Date Created: 5/19/2009 7:36:23 AM
SBC disaster relief volunteers may be mobilized due to flu
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The Southern Baptist Convention’s considerable, nationwide disaster relief resources and assets could be deployed if the Mexican swine flu epidemic escalates to the pandemic stage. |
Date Created: 4/28/2009 6:35:55 PM
Snow hampering Dakota flooding relief
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As local residents and volunteers from other states frantically work in freezing temperatures to prepare 1.9 million sandbags to thwart the rising Red River, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief teams from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin are preparing to mobilize to the area. |
Date Created: 3/27/2009 4:54:43 PM
NAMB’s ’Bridge’ links volunteers to mission projects
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Tom Cosat, pastor of tiny Mullen Baptist Church in Montrose, Ill., believes in The Bridge. |
Date Created: 3/13/2009 7:04:08 AM
Ice storm relief encompasses 100 units
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As 100 Southern Baptist Disaster Relief crews from a dozen states continue to mobilize, more than 160,000 people remain without electricity in Arkansas and Kentucky, the two states hardest hit by devastating ice storms in late January. |
Date Created: 2/5/2009 6:37:32 AM
Baptist DR responding in ice-blanketed states
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Authorities say 27 people have died as a result of the massive ice storm that swept across Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky on Jan. 28. |
Date Created: 1/30/2009 10:34:39 AM
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