3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (477+ words) GREENSBORO, N.C. — After howling winds and heavy rain swept through the Triad over Labor Day weekend, volunteers with N.C. Baptists on Mission were quick to take up their chainsaws and get to work. Starting Monday, Baptists on Mission’s disaster relief warehouse…...

5+ day, 33+ min ago   (1409+ words) CARY, N.C. — Sept. 11, 2001, began as an ordinary workday for Richard Brunson. That morning, he and some colleagues were gathered in a conference room on the fourth floor of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina’s office building in Cary for a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (994+ words) ALPHARETTA, Ga. — When storms left hundreds of Indiana homeowners requesting help, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers from multiple states came together to do what one state could not do alone. Dwain Carter, director of Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief, said the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (802+ words) BEULAH, Colo. — Four floods have ravaged the fire-blackened Beulah Valley since last month’s 102,004-acre Aspen Acres fire, which even now is but 72% contained. The worst flooding came Sunday (Aug. 16), Pastor Issac Cowger said, when the gurgling Squirrel Creek turned into…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (331+ words) CARY, N.C. — N.C. Baptists on Mission disaster response volunteers have deployed to Muncie, Indiana, to help residents recover from deadly storms that brought torrential rain, catastrophic flooding and damaging winds across the state. At least seven people have died as a…...