How do you get started with Disaster Relief?
Contact your New England Director or State Coordinators
- By having a member of your church help organize a meeting and/or trainings
- Prepare your church for a disaster
- Prepare your church for a response
- Prepare your families for disaster
- Prepare your families for a response
How to accomplish this task:
- By assisting you to create a training process with relevant content
- By developing strategies for response
- By strengthening your ability to be a beacon in your community
Who is Southern Baptist Disaster Relief?
“Little Children, let us not love in our word or talk but in deed and in truth.” 1 John 3:18 (ESV)
Our Motto
“Bringing Hope, Help, and Healing”
Our Motivation
Can be summarized in one phrase, “A cup of cold water in Jesus’ name” (Matthew 10:42). There is no one who needs “something else to do as many of us are overcommitted in our schedules. However, the motivation for serving others and obeying the Great Commission to “go” comes from the Scriptures and our experience of faith in Christ. So, how can we not go?
Our Mission
To be a Christ-Centered partnership of national, state, and associational ministries serving through the local church to bring individuals and communities affected by disasters.
Our Vision
To become a well-defined, unified disaster response organization, demonstrating the love of Christ by providing physical, emotional, and spiritual help to individuals and communities affected by disasters.
Our Values
These core values are the foundation for Southern Baptist Disaster Relief. They comprise the constant guide by which we perform disaster relief ministry and interact with an affected community, our partners, other organizations, volunteers, Southern Baptist Churches, and affiliated ministries.
Opportunities to Serve
“Be ready for every good work...our people must also learn to devote themselves to good works for cases of urgent needs, so that they will not be unfruitful.” Titus 3:1c, 14 (HCSB)
Administration: It takes a great deal of effort to keep track of jobs, volunteers, lodging, meals, and volunteer hours. Admin is the specialty that performs this ministry for Disaster Relief.
Flood Recovery: Flood Recovery is the basics of Disaster Relief for cleanup and sanitizing.
Chainsaw: Running a chainsaw is hard work and can be dangerous. Our volunteers are trained so that everyone is doing the work the same way. In our trainings, you will learn new and safer ways to use a chainsaw.
Chaplaincy: Chaplains learn to be with people and help the survivors tell their stories. This ministry is open to men and woman who feel called to spend time with hurting people.
Feeding: Following disasters there is often a shortage of food and water. Our feeding volunteers cook for the public as well as our Disaster Relief volunteers
Shower & Laundry: Shower & Laundry is 3-fold in New England. We use them to support missions teams to allow the public to have access to them and Disaster Relief volunteers.
Communications: Communications allows you to be trained in the set up of star link, satellite set up, and our radio system.
Assessment: Our assessment training will give you the knowledge and tools to allow you to safely and successfully assess the situation and the homeowner’s property.
Additional Opportunities are available upon request
How can Baptist Churches of New England help you Serve in Disaster Relief?
- By providing you the training to allow you to do the work safely and successfully
- By providing disciple-making tools to use alongside missional engagement
- By allowing the volunteer to show others the love that Christ showed us
Prepare your leadership for acts of Compassion
- By equipping them with adaptable Biblical tools
- By acquainting them with the culture of community and emergency management
- By helping to understand the environment of community service and disaster volunteerism