Jamie Baldwin gets emotional when he talks about it. As he and others with Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief (DR) have been in Hope Mills, North Carolina, helping with cleanup after Hurricane Florence for the past couple of weeks, they’ve seen story after story of God’s provision.
In one such story, he put in the address of a lady named Mary who needed help with tree removal.
“When we knocked on her door, she just hugged me and cried and said she’d just gotten up from praying that God would send her someone to help,” said Baldwin, an associate in the office of Sunday School and discipleship for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions.
Later back at the command base, they got a call.
“It was Mary checking on us — she said we had never showed up,” Baldwin said. “I said, ‘Ma’am, we just came from your house,’ and she said, ‘No, you didn’t.’”
Turns out Baldwin had transposed the numbers and gone to the wrong house — another Mary who had been praying for God to send help.
In another “divine appointment,” Baldwin’s team also was able to buy a water pump for a young father in his early 30s with stage four cancer.
“We were able to do that for them because of the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering,” he said. “It’s such a blessing to see where the money that people give is going.”
Hurricane Florence relief also was the first deployment for the Clarke Baptist Association DR team, formed only a few months ago.
“The team is tired but it’s a good kind of tired,” said Roger Van Vyck, Clarke DR coordinator. “They’ve worked hard, seen God move and had a great experience.”
For more information on training and Alabama Baptist DR, visit www.sbdr.org. To donate to Hurricane Florence DR efforts, go to www.sbdr.org/donate. (TAB)
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