NC Baptists respond to need for help after Hurricane Sandy

The North Carolina Baptist Men ^ | November 1, 2012 | NCBM Communications

[RegulatorCountry]

About 75 North Carolina Baptist Men (NCBM) volunteers are now on site assisting with response efforts after Hurricane Sandy. All three NCBM feeding units are serving in the New Jersey/New York area. The three large feeding units have a combined capacity of 80,000 meals per day. Recovery, administration and chaplaincy volunteers are also on site.

The Command Unit, along with large shower units, laundry units, generator units and recovery units, are on the ground and ministering. Recovery teams are already working in some areas and others will be organized as reports come back from assessment teams. With the recovery phase underway, many recovery volunteers are needed. “We are asking North Carolina Baptists to do three things: pray, go and give,” said Richard Brunson, NCBM executive director. “Pray for people who were affected by Hurricane Sandy and for the volunteers who are going to minister. Please pray for safety and the witness of our disaster relief volunteers. Please also pray that God’s love will be shown to hurting people and they will want to know more about our great God who loves them."

[RegulatorCountry]

The NC Baptist Men now have three mobile mass feeding operations up and running, capable of serving 80,000 hot meals per day, with additional facilities for showering, laundry and other neccessities. If you have family or friends in the affected areas of New York and northern New Jersey who are in need, send them to the NC Baptist Men. They will be well taken care of. One location is near Rutgers if not actually on the campus. Others should be locatable at the link.

[Arm_Bears]

They’d better be unionized Baptists.

[estrogen]

This is another example of taking care of our own. The government sure isn’t

[fso301]

I didn’t know there was a baptist union?

[RegulatorCountry]

They’re volunteers, lol. Quite well known for their disaster relief mission.

They went into Haiti, a few union malcontents won’t faze them.

A hot meal, a hot shower, potable water, and an army of volumteer recovery crews to help with cleanup is a Godsend.

[RegulatorCountry]

They’re very efficient, and quick. The first unit was operational on Wednesday.

[GRRRRR]

I lived in NC for 13 years. These are some of the most compassionate people in the world and they are proving just how much better the PRIVATE SECTOR is at doing things.

PRIVATE SECTOR!!

[Arm_Bears]

Yep—Just sent them a donation.

[RegulatorCountry]

There’s a world of difference between parachuting in for a photo op then leaving immediately, and marshalling resources, people and material in order to go in and actually do something about it right then and there with a commitment to seeing it through, isn’t there?

[Mears]

bfl

[RegulatorCountry]

I trust NCBM, Samaritan’s Purse and to an extent the Salvation Army to actually put donations to very good use. They get it done, no question about that. Other state Baptist groups as well as other denominations would do well to study and emulate the NCBM.

[Coldwater Creek]

Southern Baptist Men all over the country respond to catastrophic even(those evil far rightts on a regular basis. (those evil far right gun and Bible clingers)

[GRRRRR]

I cannot fathom what the USA will look like if we have four more years of that person.

[Coldwater Creek]

Correction. Southern Baptist men all over the country respond to catastrophic events on a regular basis. (Those EVIL far right gun and Bible clingers)

[bamagirl1944]

Several men from my church are on their way to do the same thing. They are members of the Disaster Relief Team of the Southern Baptist Convention. They respond to disasters like this on a regular basis.

[Tax-chick]

I was going to ask about this. I’ll have to send them a donation.

[MayflowerMadam]

I’ve never heard about this specific group, but I know that the SBC relief organization is almost always on site first, even before the Red Cross and Salvation Army — and definitely the government. They don’t blow their own horns, so their efforts are pretty much ignored. (BTW, I’m not SBC.)

[RegulatorCountry]

I was impressed. 80,000 meals a day. Hope they could get a unit into Staten Island.

[RegulatorCountry]

I’m not Baptist myself, though many friends and family members are. It can’t be said that they don’t walk the talk. They get it done. Got to admire and respect that, whatever theological differences you may have.

[Tax-chick]

I’m not Baptist, either ... not Salvationist or LDS ... but if an organization is getting disaster relief done effectively and without waste, I want to support them.

I’d like to see the kind of kitchen equipment that supports 80,000 meals a day ... sounds like what my family needs ;-). Wish I had those hot shower and laundry trucks, too.