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SOUTHERN BAPTISTDISASTER RELIEF
Terry Jones, W4TL
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, National Communications Coordinator
Brief History Of Southern Baptist
Disaster Relief
Did you know?
Began in 1966 with action of SBC to authorize $50,000 to be used by Home Mission Board for disaster relief efforts
1967 Hurricane Beulah, Bob Dixon and “Buddy Burners”
1971 Texas Baptist Mission offering allotted $25,000 for first DR feeding unit
Did you know?
1972 maiden voyage of the new feeding unit
1973 Southern Baptist first international disaster response
1976 – 4 more states established Disaster Relief Ministries
Did you Know?
1988 nine states had disaster relief ministries
1995 D.R.O.P. Manual is published
1995• 95 mobile units• 3,000 trained
volunteers
2005 _ 41 States• 586 mobile units• 51,782 trained
volunteers Grown from “buddy
burners” with one pot meals to equipment that can produce a well balanced, good tasting and nutritious meal.
Did you Know? Disaster Relief
Ministries• Feeding• Recovery
Chain Saw Mud Out
• Child Care• Communications• Showers/Laundry• Water Purification• Chaplains• Rebuild/Long Term
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief is one of the three largest disaster relief agencies in the United States
Did you Know?
Statements of Understanding• ARC - 1986• IMB - 1995• TSA - 2001• MMA - 2004• FEMA - 2005
Other MOU’s are in progress
Did you Know?
During the 2005 hurricane season, 500 Southern Baptist Disaster Relief units representing 41 state conventions operated for 184 days, utilizing 21,000 volunteers whose time amounted to 165,748 volunteer days. That accounted for more than 14.5 million of the 17,124,738 meals prepared by Southern Baptist crews all year.
In the aftermath of the hurricanes, disaster relief volunteers purified 21,595 gallons of water -- nearly a third of the 68,846 gallons offered in 2005; facilitated 103,556 of the 155,967 showers made available; completed 25,826 of the 28,253 loads of laundry for that year’s disasters; relayed 3,107 ham radio messages; and cared for 7,817 children of displaced families.
Did you Know?
Did you Know?
Our Mobile Feeding Units can prepare 5,000 to more than 20,000 meals per day depending on their classification
That approximately 95% of the meals served by The American Red Cross and Salvation Army during disasters are prepared by Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Volunteers
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• Our Clean-Up/Recovery Units
• Remove trees from houses and place tarps on damaged roofs
• Mud Out houses damaged by flood waters, etc.
Did you Know?
Our Communications Units provide tactical and logistical communications between units in the field. They also provide a communications link between the field and NAMB and state disaster relief offices.
Did you Know?
Our Child Care Units provide quality child care for children. This allows the parents of these children to seek assistance from disaster agencies
156Disaster
Responses
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief2006 National Activity Report
631,365Meals
Prepared
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2006 National Activity Report
ProvidedChildcare
for594
Children
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2006 National Activity Report
Repaired 6,176
Buildings
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2006 National Activity Report
Removed Debris from 4,331Yards
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2006 National Activity Report
Provided 120,937Showers
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2006 National Activity Report
Washed and Dried6,310
Laundry Loads
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2006 National Activity Report
Purified 259,480 Gallons
of Water
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2006 National Activity Report
Trained 19,121New
Volunteers
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2006 National Activity Report
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2006 National Activity Report
73,892Trained
Volunteers
To Date
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief2006 National Activity Report
41,163 Trained
VolunteersResponded
Placed 210New Units into
Service
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2006 National Activity Report
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2007 Fleet Report108 Feeding
Units2 Airlift
64 Class AUp to 5,000 Meals per
Day
26 Class B5,000 – 10,000 Meals per
Day
13 Class C10,000 – 20,000 Meals per
Day
3 Class D20,000 + Meals per Day
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2007 Fleet Report
583Recovery Units
Chainsaw
Mud-out
Rebuild
Combination
23Command
& Communicatio
n Units
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2007 Fleet Report
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2007 Fleet Report
18Childcare
Units
83 Shower Units
13 Laundry Units
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2007 Fleet Report
16 Water Purification Units
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2007 Fleet Report
93OtherUnits
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
2007 Fleet Report
A total of 892 different units in the National Fleet
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief 2007 Fleet Report
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
Communications
Within the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief structure there is an organized group of amateur radio operators that help bridge the gap during disasters when the normal communications channels are interrupted.
SOUTHBEARS SOUTHern Baptist Emergency Amateur Radio Service
Web Site http://www.southbears.org/
MISSION STATEMENT Our primary goal is to provide logistical and
tactical communications for our state disaster relief activities and the disaster relief activities of the North American Mission Board (NAMB).
Our secondary goal is to provide communications for others as the situation dictates. We shall exhibit an attitude, Christ like as humanly possible, to every contact, be it peer or disaster victim. We will consistently strive to labor for Jesus under the Bible verse, “….whatsoever you did for the least of these brothers of mine, you did it for me.” Matt. 25:40
We support our operational field units with communicators so they can stay in contact with the local command unit.
We also keep our field operations in contact with the various state disaster relief offices and with the North American Mission Board (NAMB)
We use every communications medium available to us to accomplish our objective. Here are a few:• Amateur VHF/UHF (onboard repeaters, etc.)
• Amateur HF Voice
• CW
• Satellite Internet Service
• Echolink
• Winlink 2000 Pactor III
• D-STAR
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Putting It All Together