SOUTHERN BAPTIST DISASTER RELIEF Terry Jones, W4TL Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, National Communications Coordinator

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

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1972 maiden voyage of the new feeding unit

1973 Southern Baptist first international disaster response

1976 – 4 more states established Disaster Relief Ministries

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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

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Statements of Understanding• ARC - 1986• IMB - 1995• TSA - 2001• MMA - 2004• FEMA - 2005

Other MOU’s are in progress

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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



Repaired 6,176

Buildings



Removed Debris from 4,331Yards



Provided 120,937Showers



Washed and Dried6,310

Laundry Loads



Purified 259,480 Gallons

of Water



Trained 19,121New

Volunteers





73,892Trained

Volunteers

To Date

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief2006 National Activity Report

41,163 Trained

VolunteersResponded

Placed 210New Units into

Service




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


2007 Fleet Report

583Recovery Units

Chainsaw

Mud-out

Rebuild

Combination

23Command

& Communicatio

n Units


2007 Fleet Report


2007 Fleet Report

18Childcare

Units

83 Shower Units

13 Laundry Units


2007 Fleet Report

16 Water Purification Units


2007 Fleet Report

93OtherUnits


2007 Fleet Report

A total of 892 different units in the National Fleet

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief 2007 Fleet Report


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/

[email protected]

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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SOUTHERN BAPTIST DISASTER RELIEF Terry Jones, W4TL Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, National Communications Coordinator