Noting cooperation is a trademark of Southern Baptists and that we're seeing it lived out at this time, BRN Executive Director Barry Whitworth celebrates the nearly 100,000 meals being delivered to 40 of our BRN churches to distribute to people in their communities.
PA/SJ Disaster Relief volunteers have been busy during the pandemic, securing food for distribution, supplying masks, praying for pastors, and so much more.
"We have been through past crises including economic recessions and depressions, wars, terrorist attacks and even pandemics. None of these have destroyed our work together."
Twenty college students from California University of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven University, Penn State University and from Edinboro Community Church chose to use their spring break to worship God and to help people recover from Hurricane Florence in Rose Hill, N.C.
A letter from Pennsylvania's Food Bank networks, Feeding Pennsylvania and Hunger-Free Pennsylvania, has said, "Yes, we are open," in spite of state mandates prohibiting on-site work at non-life sustaining businesses.
"We're going to get strategic and make sure big crowds aren't gathering in our building at one time, to make sure we're responsible while at the same time distributing food to people in need," said Rob Wilton, the North American Mission Board's (NAMB) Send City Missionary who provides oversight to Send Relief's ministry activity in the city.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has asked Southern Baptist Disaster Relief to fill the gaps in crucial wraparound services for senior citizens across our nation, PA/SJ Disaster Relief Director Kenton Hunt announced on March 16.
Wading through a muddy, flooded basement with squeegee in hand, college student Danielle Toone could not have been more satisfied with the experience of working in disaster relief.
The International Mission Board (IMB) and the North American Mission Board (NAMB) will work together to combine compassion ministry efforts in North America and abroad under the umbrella of Send Relief.