Purpose:
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To provide physical, emotional, and
spiritual help to victims of natural and man-made disasters,
including floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, and
terrorist attacks, in North America and overseas |
Organization:
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Disaster relief units are owned and
staffed by Southern Baptist churches, regional Baptist
associations, and state Baptist conventions. Volunteer teams
respond to disasters within their own state and work
cooperatively with other states in larger emergencies. Teams
also work overseas when Baptist Global Response requests help. |
| Our Focus: |
Cumberland Gap Disaster Relief has
mass feeding as our main focus. Our unit is capable of
producing up to 20,000 meals per day. At full capacity we
require a staff of 20 people to operate our unit. We need cooks,
wash crew, inventory crew, food preparation crew, and others. We
will also have a coordinator to work with the Red Cross and/or
The Salvation Army to have the food ready to go when they come
to pick it up. We may also have a feeding line, but often this
will be manned by folks from the local churches. |
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