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Pictured is the support team from the North American Mission Board currently coordinating the relief efforts from the Task Command Center at Rolling Hills Ministries in Ruston. (From left) Rich and Hazel from Georgia, Lora from Kansas/Nebraska, Vicki and Eddie from the North American Mission Board in Alabama, Ken and Annie (dog) from California.

‘Yellow-shirted’ Cavalry to the rescue in Louisiana

April 6, 2016

By Staff, Baptist Message

Numbers will fade, but the lives touched will always be remembered.

Currently Southern Baptist Disaster Relief has served over 46,000 meals, provided 1,800 showers, washed 1,130 loads of laundry and completed 930 jobs with over 5,000 volunteer hours. These numbers are only what have been recorded.

With the water receding very slowly in many areas, particularly in north Louisiana, SBDR is still planning and responding to needs across Louisiana.

Called the ‘yellow-shirt’ Cavalry by former Louisiana Baptist Convention President and First Baptist Covington Pastor Waylon Bailey, everywhere teams have served they are being greeted warmly by Louisianans.

Disasters have a way of changing lives by bringing people together and we are seeing this happen across Louisiana.

 

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