Southern Baptist Disaster Relief: Sept. 20 cumulative status report
Sep 20, 2001
By Staff
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Delivering help
Members of the Tennessee Baptist Convention's Disaster Relief team greet employees of UPS in New York City. The team from Tennessee is preparing food in the back parking lot of the UPS warehouse. Photo by Jim Veneman
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers continue as the major supplier of hot meals to the American Red Cross for distribution to search and rescue workers and others in New York City and Washington, D.C.
Volunteer chaplains and pastoral counselors also are at work alongside other Disaster Relief units and in a variety of other locations.
Following is the latest information regarding Southern Baptists' response as of 9 a.m., Sept.20:
Total Volunteer Days: 1,553
Meals prepared: 87,529
Locations and units activated:
-- Pentagon parking lot, Washington, D.C. North Carolina mobile kitchen.
-- New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn. Mobile kitchens from New York and
Virginia. Mobile shower unit from North Carolina.
-- United Parcel Service terminal, Manhattan. Mobile kitchen and shower unit from Tennessee.
-- City-owned warehouse, Brooklyn. Mobile kitchen from Kentucky, shower unit from Tennessee.
-- Raritan Baptist Church, Edison, N.J. Staging area for all incoming volunteers, staffed by a communication unit from Georgia.
-- Chaplains are assigned at various locations in New York, including the Comfort Center for family members of victims and the morgue adjacent to the World Trade Center site. Thirteen chaplains are currently in New York, including teams from South Carolina and Oklahoma.
-- Donors from 35 states have given more than $77,872 for the disaster relief, most of which has come from donations online at www.namb.net/dr. One hundred percent of those gifts will be used for disaster relief in the field, not for administration. Checks designated for Disaster Relief also may also be sent to NAMB by mail to P.O. Box 116543, Atlanta, GA 30368-6543. Phone inquiries may be directed to 1-888-440-6262.
The Southern Baptist Disaster Relief network, which includes more than 20,000 trained volunteers, is coordinated nationally by the North American Mission Board in cooperation with state Southern Baptist conventions. For more information and updates, visit www.namb.net/dr.
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(BP) photo posted in the BP Photo Library at http://www.bpnews.net. Photo title: DELIVERING HELP.
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