Interested In Being A Disaster Relief Volunteer?

If you would like to be a part of the disaster relief response, you should make your availability known to the disaster relief coordinator.
(Fill out and submit the form on left)   You must complete the required training to participate with a specialty unit.  (Check the news section for up coming training events.  Be ready when called to serve.

Being a Disaster Relief Volunteer

The Southern Baptist Disaster Relief organization is multistate, multiracial, and multitalented. Yet there are many elements in common.

• Volunteers should be people with a number of Christian qualities: patient, caring, possessing a spirit of love and concern with a desire to share Christ with others.
• Volunteers are expected to participate in training events and learn about disaster conditions and how to deal with the situations they will face.
• Volunteers must follow the directions of those in charge.
• Volunteers must be willing to provide leadership as the need arises and assignments are made.
• Volunteers must be versatile and flexible in their work. Team members are called on the basis of skills that are needed and placed according to needs, talents, and availability.
• Volunteers need to arrange time to be available.
• Volunteers should be prepared to use every opportunity to share their faith in Christ.
• Volunteers must possess:
      Spiritual strength – be consistent in faith
      Physical strength – the work day is long and strenuous
      Moral strength – in speech, attitude, and actions

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