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Southern Baptists bring stability to flood survivors

Every day, assessors walk the streets, attempting to find the most vulnerable people with the greatest need. And every day, volunteers don their gloves and get to work, crawling around on a mud-slicked floor or hauling sodden carpet to the curb for trash pickup.

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Carmen Sisson August 31, 2016 August 16, 2017Recent Bylines disaster, disaster response, flood, Louisiana, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief 0

Baptist volunteers witness power of community

Driving the streets of Baton Rouge, the need is apparent. Life is slowly getting back to normal in some places, but the majority of streets hold deep pockets of pain. In these areas, SBDR volunteers are greeted with smiles, tears and heartfelt gratitude.

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Carmen Sisson August 25, 2016 August 16, 2017Recent Bylines disaster, disaster response, flood, Louisiana, North American Mission Board, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief 0

Louisiana flood survivors helped by Southern Baptists

Neighborhoods and side streets tell a heartbreaking story. Clothes, mattresses and household furniture lay strewn across wet lawns in hopes that the sun will shine long enough to dry them. Everything that was not salvageable is piled high along the roadways, transforming shady lanes to narrow pathways, children’s toys providing the occasional jolt of color.

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Carmen Sisson August 22, 2016 August 16, 2017Recent Bylines Baptist, faith-based charities, flood, Louisiana, religion, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, weather 0

Faith-based teams take a holistic view on disaster response

The rental trailer wasn’t in great condition before the muddy rivers spilled their banks in Columbus, Ind., but it provided a home for the family of five. The parents worked in the fields and their baby played happily on the kitchen floor in the evenings, surrounded by the chatter of the two elder siblings doing homework and the smells of supper being prepared. Then summer came, and with it came flooding rains — 11 inches within seven hours. Levees broke. Dams failed. Much of the Midwest was left underwater, with places in Indiana seeing the worst flooding the state had experienced in more than a century.

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Carmen Sisson October 29, 2008 August 25, 2014Recent Bylines disaster, Disaster News Network, disaster response, faith-based, flood, Indiana 0
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