Disaster Relief

This training is for South Carolina Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers interested in serving as a chaplain. You will learn to provide emotional and spiritual support to people in crisis. You do not have to be a professional minister to serve in this role, and both men and women are needed as chaplains. The class is…

This event provides training for those interested in meeting needs after a disaster. Classes are offered in these ministry areas of Baptist Disaster Relief: assessment of needs, introduction to chaplaincy** (see below for more info on chaplaincy), children’s response teams, mass feeding, chainsaw, flood recovery (mud-out), and shower/laundry. Additionally, an “Introduction to Disaster Relief” class

  Prisoner packets are a hallmark of the holiday season for many South Carolina Baptists. Collected for more than 40 years, the packets of stationery, personal hygiene products and gospel literature are often the only gift received by inmates living in institutions across the state. The packets are also just one of many ongoing prison

South Carolina Baptist Disaster Relief units and teams served in Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana after Hurricanes Sally and Delta. Those responses are now closed. One of the volunteers shared this experience: Richard and Johnnie went to the store to pick up a few groceries for the feeding team. As they were busy looking for the

While Disaster Relief networks from across the nation continue to serve in response to Hurricanes Laura and Sally, Hurricane Delta added another layer of need. Before Delta made landfall, Louisiana Baptist DR was already making plans to open new sites of operation while continuing the existing operations.  Having concluded our part of the Hurricane Laura

Update, 10/5/20 – South Carolina Disaster Relief units are in our second week of assisting Florida and Alabama DR in responding to Hurricane Sally. Chainsaw, chaplain, and shower/laundry teams are needed throughout October to meet needs in Jesus’ name. This week there are five SC units serving: ~ in the Mobile area, one feeding team ~ in

Update, 9/30/2020 –The Hurricane Laura recovery site in Leesville, LA is now closed. (New info since the 9/21 update is in Bold type.) The command post site in Leesville closed on Sept. 25, a week earlier than originally planned, due to the needs created in Alabama and Florida by Hurricane Sally.The teams from SC that were

All SC Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers and units are on ALERT to respond to Hurricane Laura. South Carolina has been asked to assist Louisiana Disaster Relief (DR) in the Leesville area of Vernon Parish following Hurricane Laura’s landfall. This parish (county) is in west central LA due west of Alexandria, very near the Sabine River

Disaster Relief ministry is substantially supported by the Janie Chapman Offering for State Missions. Various other ministries depend on the offering also. Please pray for missions efforts in SC and give to the Janie Chapman Offering to support these efforts! SC Baptist Convention staff members and others are available to speak to your congregation or

Update 8/4/2020: Directors of Missions in the coastal associations from Georgetown to Myrtle Beach report minimal effects from Tropical Storm/Hurricane Isaias in their areas. It’s a beautiful sunny day, with crowds at the beaches. But as the storm continues to churn northward, please pray for those in harm’s way from the wind, rain, storm surge