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Missouri Disaster Relief volunteers ‘serving Christ in crisis’
Ron Crow, Chaplain (center)
The year 2011 has been called the “Year of Disasters.” Your Missouri Baptist Convention Disaster Relief volunteers have served faithfully in St. Louis after the Spring tornado, Poplar Bluff and Morehouse following the spring and summer flooding, at Joplin as they recover from the EF-5 tornado, and in Northeast Missouri, cleaning up from the flood there.
Your Missouri Mission Offering dollars help fund a very large portion of the Disaster Relief operating budget. Thank you for helping “Serve Christ in the Crisis.” Our state offering goal this year is $750,000.
Missouri Baptist Response to Joplin Disaster
For information about the Missouri Baptist response to the Joplin tornado disaster, go to the Missouri Baptist Convention web site. Click here to go to the Disaster Relief page.
Also, click here to visit the Missouri Baptist Convention Disaster Relief page at Facebook.
Disaster Relief Photos from Big Lake
Mud Out at Big Lake
Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief provides "mud out" at Big Lake, located near St. Joseph, Missouri.
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If you think you were hot and sweaty here in Missouri over the past couple of weeks, imagine yourself wading through dirty water and cleaning mud out of someone else’s house. That’s just what one of your Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief teams has been doing. Here are some new photos from our Disaster Relief work at Big Lake Baptist Church, located in northwest Missouri (about 50 miles north of St. Joseph). Jim Griffey and his team went there in late July and early August and did several mud out jobs. Here’s a report from Jim… Read the rest of this entry »
Ice storm victim accepts Christ
Connie Handyside of the Mt. Salem Wyaconda Association chain saw unit experienced what we all pray and hope all disaster relief responses will involve. While responding after an ice storm at Cape Girardeau, Mo., Connie visited with a homeowner and shared the gospel. The Lord used her availability and witness as a disaster relief chaplain to convince that lady of her need for Jesus Christ. Connie had the privilege of leading her to faith in Christ right there on her front porch.
The Missouri Missions offering assists churches and associations in training Disaster Relief workers in the areas of mass care, providing a trailer for people to take a hot shower, learning to use a chain saw, child care, “mud out” (cleaning mud from flooded homes), assessment, and chaplains. Funds also are used for the upkeep of equipment and for maintaining the state Disaster Relief facility located at Marshall, Missouri.
—From Rick Seaton, Men’s Ministries Specialist, MBC
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