The first Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are on the ground in Huffman, Texas, and getting ready to help this weekend with cleanup in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl.
“We’re going to provide chain saw support to the community,” said John Hayes, the white hat leader for ABDR in Huffman. “Right now, we’re still getting set up.”
He said there is a “good bit of damage” to several of the areas near First Baptist Church Huffman, where teams will be based. When Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas on Monday (July 8), it toppled trees and left millions without power.
“As I get the assessors in — they’re supposed to come in tonight — they will be out checking and finding the people in the community who will allow us to do their work and make sure it’s something we can safely do,” Hayes said.
Helping out, making contacts
Chain saw teams will begin arriving tomorrow (July 12) and start work tomorrow evening or Saturday (July 13), he said. “We will only be doing chain saw work at this time, but that could change.”
An ABDR feeding team will be set up at the church providing meals for volunteer teams, and a team of chaplains will be working in the neighborhoods alongside chain saw teams, Hayes said. They plan to give daily reports to FBC Huffman so that the church can follow up with contacts after teams are gone.
“It’s a good way for them to make contact with people that they may not have gotten to make contact with otherwise,” Hayes said.
For more information on how you can help Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief as they come alongside those affected by Hurricane Beryl, visit sbdr.org.
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