Stories tagged with: 2005 gulf coast hurricanes wilma rita dennis

• After the hurricane, they come with prayer & financial aid

  by Eva Wolever, posted Monday, November 07, 2005 (18 years ago)

  HALLANDALE, Fla. (BP)--Shaking her head in disbelief as tears ran down her wrinkled face, Dottie Trull, an 83-year-old resident of north Miami’s working-class suburb of Hallandale hugged the man and woman who gave her and her daughter a small amount of money.

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• Wilma opens new channels for disaster relief work & witness

  by James A. Smith Sr., posted Friday, November 04, 2005 (18 years ago)

  NAPLES, Fla. (BP)--Leon Branch -– a veteran of Florida Baptist disaster relief cleanup and recovery efforts –- was surprised by what he found in southwest Florida when he arrived shortly after Hurricane Wilma came ashore Oct. 24. Read More

• Churches hit by Hurricane Wilma qualify for LifeWay assistance

  by Staff, posted Friday, November 04, 2005 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Throughout the last few months, LifeWay Christian Resources has remained deeply involved in providing financial assistance and resources to Southern Baptist churches affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The Nashville-based nonprofit organization is continuing its commitment to providing disaster relief by now aiding Florida Southern Baptist churches and pastors affected by Hurricane Wilma. Read More

• Wilma’s first responders include 36 Fla. convention staffers

  by Barbara Denman, posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 (18 years ago)

  A time for sharing Maxie Miller, one of 36 Florida Baptist Convention staffers involved in Hurricane Wilma relief efforts, shares the Gospel using an “EvangeCube” in Miramar. Miller is the convention’s African American church planting coordinator. Photo by Ken Touchton/Florida Baptist Convention

  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP)—Among the first responders to Hurricane Wilma: 36 Florida Baptist Convention staff members who were dispatched to assess damage and meet needs in South Florida.

  They have visited churches, contacted pastors and surveyed migrant communities. They have served as volunteer coordinators, spiritual counselors and radio communicators. They answered phones, set up commodity distributions, assessed damage, located housing for volunteers and dispensed emergency funds. Read More

• Southern Baptists dispute media reports & blogger claims as 'absolute falsehood' that disaster relief teams withheld water

  by Jennifer Davis Rash/Alabama Baptist, posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 (18 years ago)

  Officials weigh in Contrary to media and blogger reports, disaster relief officials say cans of water from Anheuser-Busch did not cause volunteers to withhold water from Hurricane Wilma victims at a Florida feeding site.

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP)--No thirsty person went without water, and no water went to waste, Tim Bridges, pastor of First Baptist Church in Clewiston, Fla., said in response to media reports that claimed differently when a shipment of water distributed by Anheuser-Busch caused confusion Oct. 28.

        The inaccurate information also is circulating among Web bloggers.

        Keith Hinson, public relations associate for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, said, “It is an absolute falsehood to suggest —- as many irresponsible bloggers have —- that the Baptist volunteers withheld the basic needs of life from Floridians impacted by the hurricane. Contrary to misinterpretations of news reports, no one was denied access to water.” Read More

• Baptists’ 10.5 million meals shatters prior disaster relief record

  by Tim Yarbrough, posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 (18 years ago)

  One among millions Chricendie Joseph, 7, helps pick up meals for her family from a Southern Baptist feeding unit at First Baptist Church in Belle Glade, Fla., in a region where crops were ravaged by Hurricane Wilma. Southern Baptist Disaster Relief units have served more than 10.5 million meals this year. Photo by Joni B. Hannigan/Florida Baptist Witness

  ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--Southern Baptist Disaster Relief announced Nov. 2 that volunteers have prepared a record 10.5 million meals since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in late August. The meal count shatters the previous record of 3.5 million meals set in 2004. Read More

• Fla. Keys surprised by Wilma, comforted by Baptist relief

  by James A. Smith, posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 (18 years ago)

  FLORIDA KEYS (BP)--After the worst of Hurricane Wilma’s winds passed through Key West in the early morning hours Oct. 24, fifth-generation “Conch” (Florida Keys native) Christine Rodriguez ventured out of her home on the highest part of the island only to find a “wall of water coming down the street” toward her. Read More

• President Bush, Gov. Bush thank Baptist relief workers

  by Joni B. Hannigan, posted Friday, October 28, 2005 (18 years ago)

  Valuing the volunteers President George W. Bush thanks Southern Baptist volunteers from Tennessee who were serving meals at First Baptist Church in Pompano Beach, Fla., Oct. 27 after Hurricane Wilma’s onslaught three days earlier. Photo by Joni B. Hannigan/Florida Baptist Witness

  POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (BP)--President George W. Bush and his brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, thanked volunteers from the Tennessee Baptist Convention Disaster Relief operation and members of First Baptist Church in Pompano Beach Oct. 27 for preparing more than 12,000 meals since an early morning arrival the previous day.

        Hurricane Wilma, a strong, Category 3 storm, left Florida Oct. 24 after cutting a swathe through Alligator Alley and walloping structures and trees along the highly populated East Coast corridor stretching from Vero Beach to Miami, leaving millions without power. Read More

• Wilma destroys church's sanctuary, but not its hope

  by Joni B. Hannigan, Florida Baptist Witness, posted Friday, October 28, 2005 (18 years ago)

  BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (BP)--A bag of used clothes left by the church’s front door after Hurricane Wilma roared through Florida reminded Pastor Dennis Demarois of the community’s love for the church.

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• 15 Baptist kitchen units begin post-Wilma operations in Fla.

  by Mickey Noah, posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 (18 years ago)

  ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--An estimated 500 Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are now in the middle of Hurricane Wilma’s devastation in South Florida, while 7,000 SBC volunteers are still serving along the Gulf Coast.

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