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Updated February 29, 2012 Do you have a heart for service? Are you willing to work long hours with a smile? Southern
Baptist Disaster Relief may be a place for you to use your gifts… |
The rewards are many:
Making New Friends from across
Giving HOPE to victims of disasters with
food & drink, cleaning basements & yards
Giving COMFORT to victims by praying with
them
Giving CHRIST to victims by sharing your
FAITH
Giving yourself the reward of being a part of a team
that SERVES
CHRIST IN THE CRISIS
Click
here for information on:
Ministry
units Serving as a chaplain
Region 1 Roundtable and
advanced training event (March 22 – 24, 2012)
Training
Dates and Locations for 2012
April 13 - 14 Thompsontown Baptist Church
April 27 – 28 Bux-Mont Baptist Church 309 County Line Road,
Hatboro, PA 19040 online
registration
May 18 - 19
Click here for class schedule and description
Pre-registration
with a non refundable (but transferrable) $15 deposit will be required to
attend trainings for new volunteers and renewals.
A training session will
be canceled if 10 people are not signed up 1 week prior to the scheduled date.
Cost: New
Volunteers $30.00 (Includes manuals, badge, hat, shirt, breakfast & lunch)
3 year
renewal $15.00 (Includes manuals,
badge, breakfast & lunch)
ALL TRAINED VOLUNTEERS ARE STRONGLY URGED TO
PARTICIPATE IN TRAINING ON THE NEW FIELD KITCHEN.
You may overnight at the church. Please bring personal medications, toiletries
and sleeping bags, mats or air mattresses.
We almost always use church facilities for housing accommodations during
a disaster response and most of our volunteers have concluded that an air
mattress is the most comfortable option.
* Please
note You must be 18 years or older to train. 16 – 17 years of
age may be trained upon a recommendation letter from pastor and youth leader
and must be sponsored by a trained disaster relief volunteer. 16 – 17 year olds will not be allowed to run powered equipment, serve on national or out
of state responses until the age of 18.
No badges will be issued until 18 years of age
