DR TEAMS HELP FLOOD VICTIMS, OTHERS
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptists are being asked to join other Southern Baptist disaster relief volunteers in helping flood victims in Missouri and Arkansas and they have responded, said Wes Jones, disaster relief specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. The Midwest has been slammed by severe flooding, CNN reported. Floods have killed […]
DR ‘TREE CLIMBER’ JAMES BROWN RECOGNIZED
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector KNOXVILLE — He’s known as the “Tennessee Squirrel” or the tree climber among Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers. Children seeing him swinging around in a tree with ropes have called him Spiderman. He is James Brown, a Tennessee Baptist disaster relief volunteer. Brown not only climbs […]
SMALL CHURCHES MAKE BIG IMPACT IN DR
By Carolyn Tomlin Contributing Writer, B&R BROWNSVILLE — When the call came a few years ago from Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief to assist people who had been affected by an ice storm in Missouri, Woodland Baptist Church here responded. In the summer of 2016, the team once again loaded up trucks and equipment and headed […]
DR HELPS 253 FAMILIES AFTER FIRES
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector GATLINBURG — Disaster relief fire response “is so different … . We can’t go door to door saying, ‘Hey, we’re here for you,’ because there are no doors,” explained Kaye Thomas of Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief, referring to the hundreds of homes destroyed here by fires […]
DR LEADERS MARK 50 YEARS OF MINISTRY, EYE FUTURE
Baptist Press DENTON, Texas (BP) — Southern Baptist Disaster Relief leaders throughout North America met for their annual “Round Table” meeting and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of SBDR. Representatives from nearly all the state Baptist conventions participated in the Jan. 23-27 event at Camp Copass in Denton, Texas. Portions of the […]
MATTRESSES SENT TO LA. FLOOD VICTIMS
Baptist and Reflector MORRISTOWN — Nolachucky Baptist Association disaster relief, based here, with help from Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief, is delivering four tractor trailer loads or about 236 sets of mattresses and box springs to Louisiana flood victims, reported Don Owen, director of disaster relief. Owen learned of the need at the end of November […]
STILL ANSWERING THE CALL IN TIME OF NEED
By Randy C. Davis TBMB Executive Director The news media may have moved on, and that’s okay. As we say, Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers get there when the disaster hits and stay long after the media has left. And that’s definitely the case in Sevier County where November’s wildfires devastated countless homes, businesses, and […]
DR VOLUNTEERS SHOW CHRIST’S LOVE
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector GATLINBURG — One month after a devastating fire swept through the Smoky Mountains, Gatlinburg residents are still picking up the pieces, literally. Hundreds of Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers have provided assistance since relief efforts began. Volunteers have done everything from providing hot meals and sack lunches to […]
TORNADO KILLS TWO IN OCOEE, BAPTISTS RESPOND
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector OCOEE — Two people known by members of Shiloh Baptist Church here died in the Nov. 30 F-3 tornado which struck the community. The couple, new residents, rented a home from members of the church, reported Charles Campbell, pastor. A mother of one of those who […]
THE IMPORTANCE OF SHOWING UP
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Churches charred. Businesses gone. Homes nothing but ash heaps and rubble. Some of the most beautiful country I’ve ever seen left a blackened wasteland. A few hours of raging fire forever changed the lives of thousands. One of those homes on […]