Tornado Disaster Relief

Whitesburg Baptist Church Response to the Tornado Disaster of April 27, 2011

 

 

John Crocker will serve as WBC Disaster Relief Coordinator
Office phone: (256) 704-5678, ext. 211
Email: john.crocker@wbccares.org and copy beverly.dishman@wbccares.org.

 

WBC's Pulaski Pike campus (The PLACE) will serve as a Disaster Relief Drop Point for the following items requested by the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions:

• Bottled water
• Sports Drinks
• Power bars
• Blankets
• Styrofoam coolers

• Hand sanitizer

These items will need to be dropped off at the gymnasium at:

The Place
3911 Pulaski Pike
Huntsville, Alabama 35810


Association and Disaster Relief volunteers are participating in assessing the damage from the storms.

Local first responders are presently engaged in search and rescue operations. Trained DR units will soon be sent to affected areas to begin clean up.

Presently the AL Baptist State Board of Missions is working in these capacities:
• 3 feeding units with 60 volunteers are deployed
• 3 shower units with 6 volunteers are in service
• 36 chainsaw teams with 249 volunteers are at work
• 11 Chaplains are serving
• 16 counties are being served
• 19 out of state teams with 165 volunteers are on the way- here by Saturday April 30.
• 487 volunteers with 60 teams and the list is growing by the hour.

 

 

The Baptist Building in Montgomery will host the Statewide IncidentCommand Center.

A phone bank has been established where you may call with questions regarding needs or resources. The direct line to the phone bank is: 334-280-7297. You may call 800-264-1225 or 334-288-2460 as well to reach the phone bank. Hours of operation are Monday through Saturday from 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Sunday will be 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

 

For FEMA Aid call 1-800-621-FEMA (3362)


HOW YOU CAN HELP

If you are 18 years or older and would like to volunteer your time, go to Huntsville First Baptist Church on Governors Drive.  The American Red Cross has set up post there and they can register you and send you/your team out where help is needed.  You can call there before going at 256-428-9445.

In addition you may help in the following ways:

Give!

Financial resources are needed to assist both churches and victims. Make checks payable to Whitesburg Baptist Church, earmark for Alabama Tornado Relief.

Bring or mail your check to:
Whitesburg Baptist Church
6806 Whitesburg Drive
Huntsville, AL  35802

These funds will be used for those in Madison County by Whitesburg Baptist Church as well as throughout the State of Alabama by the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions affected by the disaster.

100% of the funds will be used for those affected by the tornado disaster.

 

If you have been trained by the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions Disaster Relief team, you may join the chainsaw & cleanup team from the Madison Baptist Association.  Contact Wayne Miller at 256-536-0015.

 

Pray!

 

Thank you for your help!  If we can assist, do not hesitate to give us a call at (256) 704-5678, ext. 211.
John Crocker


If you are not in the Huntsville area, other Alabama Baptist Churches serving as Drop Points include:

Church at Brook Hills, Birmingham; Russelville FBC, Russellville; Bethsalem BC, Billingsley;Montgomery FBC Caring Center, Montgomery; Sixth Street BC, Alexander City; N. Jefferson Association, Mt. Olive; Onenota First, Oneonta; Pineview BC, Brent; Northport BC, Northport; Pleasant Mt, Remlap; Fayette FBC, Fayette; Highland Park, Muscle
Shoals; Snowtown, Dora; Forest Lake, Tuscaloosa; Winfield FBC, Winfield; New Prospect BC, Jasper; Canaan , Bessemer; Pelham FBC, Pelham.