With the need for trained disaster relief volunteers a high priority throughout Louisiana, four locations are hosting training sessions, sponsored by the Louisiana Baptist Convention’s Disaster Relief.
Two sessions will take place in Sulphur and Natchitoches Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
Houston River Baptist Church in Sulphur will offer mud-out training, where volunteers will learn how to clean out the inside of homes damaged by the flooding. Trinity Baptist Church in Natchitoches will hold mud-out and shower unit training that night as well.
The cost is 28 dollars at both locations and includes a hat and shirt.
Thursday at 6:30 p.m., Istrouma Baptist Church in Baton Rouge will hold mud-out training. The training fee is $22, and includes a hat and shirt.
And through Saturday, First Baptist Church in Haughton will host two short sessions each day for walk-up volunteers wishing to minister in Bossier, Caddo and Webster parishes. Pastor Gevan Spinney said the free sessions are at 7 am and noon, and volunteers should come wearing rubber boots. Other equipment will be provided.
Over the weekend, 134 volunteers were trained in mud-out, feeding, chainsaw, childcare and ham radio at Temple Baptist Church in Ruston while another 25 volunteers received training at Woodland Park Baptist Church in Hammond.
For more information about volunteering or giving to Southern Baptist Disaster Relief efforts, go to the Louisiana Baptist Disaster Relief website.
