Volunteers from Alabama continue to help people with flooded homes in South Carolina, offering practical help but also spiritual encouragement and connecting them with local churches.
As waters are receding around the Edisto River in South Carolina, Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are hard at work helping area residents whose houses were flooded by Hurricane Debby on Aug. 3.
ABDR chaplain Thelma Goolsby said it’s been “glorious and humbling” to see the way God has been at work in Huffman, Texas – 13 people have prayed to receive Christ since teams arrived July 11.
Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief work in Huffman, Texas, is “fast and furious,” said John Hayes, the ABDR white hat leader on site. And they’ve seen God at work — two people in the community have made decisions to follow Christ.
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.
Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief teams are preparing to leave Thursday morning (July 11) for Huffman, Texas, to help with cleanup from Hurricane Beryl, which made landfall in Texas early yesterday (July 8).
Disaster Relief teams are busy today assessing damage caused by storms in several states.
Pastor Daniel Waid said the day after his friend Mike Benefield died, a young girl from Haiti was baptized whom Benefield had been bringing to church through the bus ministry. It’s a testimony of the way Benefield lived his life, Waid said.
