Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief teams are hard at work in Selmer, Tennessee, and in Alabama’s Colbert and Lauderdale counties following a devastating set of storms that moved across the Midwest and the South in the past week. In Selmer, an EF-3 tornado killed five area residents and destroyed whole neighborhoods on April 3, according to David Hendon, the white hat leader on site for ABDR. “It was just really, really bad,” he said. But Hendon is

Two Alabama Baptist churches sustained damage in the storms last night (March 15) — Calera Baptist from a tornado, and Mignon Baptist in Sylacauga from flooding. Mignon Baptist was sheltering between 80 and 100 people in its basement-level fellowship hall when the water started pouring in, according to Pastor Jeremy Brown. The church has many neighbors in a “vulnerable housing situation,” he said, so the church opened its doors to the community when weather warnings were announced for the

Westside Baptist Church in Tuscumbia lost its steeple when an EF-1 tornado ripped through the city late Feb. 15. The tornado was part of a large line of storms that marched through the entire state that night and in the early morning hours of Feb. 16, producing strong straight-line winds and spawning tornadoes. Westside posted on its Facebook page that the church building had “suffered significant damage.” The Colbert-Lauderdale Baptist Association disaster relief team was in Tuscumbia today (Feb. 16)

The last Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief team that was deployed to help those affected by Hurricane Helene has returned home, though others may go again after Thanksgiving. Mark Wakefield, state disaster relief strategist, said a 28-person team from Calhoun Baptist Association came back to Alabama Sunday (Nov. 17). That team plus five others have helped with chainsaw cleanup and tarping in western North Carolina since operations shut down in Clearwater, South Carolina, Nov. 1. For more stories about disaster relief