Arizona

Feeding Teams Needed:

Volunteers are needed to staff feeding teams to serve in Galveston. We will be working there Oct. 17-31, and possibly future dates as well. If you are available and willing to serve, please contact us at serve@arizonadisasterrelief.org, or call the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention at 800.687.2431.

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You can help support the Arizona Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Team as they serve in Christ's name. Checks designated to Disaster Relief may be sent to the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention, 2240 N. Hayden Road, Suite 100, Scottsdale, AZ 85257.

The Arizona Southern Baptist Disaster Relief ministry receives no Cooperative Program funds and is supported by the Willis J. Ray State Mission Offering and designated gifts.

Ideas for what to take on the Road (PDF file)

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Request

This request comes from our national disaster relief director Terry Henderson. Please be in prayer for this need and for the Lord to lift up people to meet it.

Dear State DR Directors and Coordinators:
BGR has requested that we inquire into our people resources for a volunteer couple to help with an emergency project in Ethiopia which has just begun.

This project is to provide relief to 56 families who lost their houses and food supply due to fires during the recent drought. People in two different counties lost all their possessions as the fires consumed their grass houses. Including all immediate family members, 498 people were affected. BGR has sent $37,000 to provide corrugated steel and nails for housing and a three-month supply of grain that will assist the families until harvest time. Additionally, the rains are now beginning and the area of the burned houses is about 30 miles down a dirt road.

The affected area is Muslim with no known Christian influence in its history. Through this project, we hope to open their eyes to Jesus Christ using nearby tribal believers as workers in the project

The in-country field worker states, “We are looking for a husband and wife team who could come and live in Ethiopia with us and drive a four-wheel drive truck to the burn site to assist in aid distribution. We need someone with third world experience. We want a couple because if someone works 40 hours a week, it takes another person to take care of the household. The cost would be $9 per day for the couple and about $500 for groceries. They would have to take malaria medicine like us. We have a guest room next to our journeymen girl, but they would have to share the kitchen. The ideal couple would be able to come for 30 days; if we can't find someone for 30 days, we could use two couples for 15 days back to back.”

The volunteers do NOT need to be DR-trained.

Please contact Jim Brown directly for more information and to help at jbrown@gobgr.org; 1 866 974-5623