Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief

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I’m Not Trained, But I Did Stay at a Holiday Inn Express Last Night

January 19th, 2012 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Disaster Relief

Believers often ask in Disaster Relief, “Why do I have to go through training to serve as a disaster relief volunteer? Why can’t I just go help people?” Preparation is important in any area of ministry as it enables us to be more effective as we seek to be used by God to reach or [...]

Thanks for a Job Well Done on American Samoa

April 8th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Disaster Relief, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Kentuckians Larry and Elaine Koch are now on their way back home after serving for the past three months as coordinators for Southern Baptist Disaster Relief teams working in American Samoa to help the people there recover from a devastating earthquake-generated tsunami that swept the island last September. Larry is retired as disaster relief associate [...]

Haiti’s Shepherds Need Our Prayers

March 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Disaster Relief, Haiti

I mentioned in the last post that I would be sharing video from the current Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief mission to Haiti. Take a look at this powerful testimony from one of our Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief chaplains who has been in Haiti this week as he shares about ministering to Haitian pastors.

Haiti’s Needs Continue to be Desperate

March 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Disaster Relief, Haiti

It’s looking like Kentucky Baptists will send more than 12,000 Buckets of Hope to Haiti as part of the SBC-wide effort to provide practical aid to the people devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake. The goal here in Kentucky was to collect 10,000 buckets so our people have been especially generous. The video on this [...]

Needs Great in American Samoa

February 18th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Disaster Relief

With all of the focus on Haiti since the tragic earthquake that struck there on Jan. 12, it’s easy to forget that Southern Baptist Disaster Relief is also working right now in American Samoa to help the people there recover from a devastating earthquake-generated tsunami that swept the island last September. The needs in American [...]

Dateline Haiti: Survivors Will Not Be Forgotten

February 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

A fitting wrap-up of the Dateline Haiti series is this video dispatch just released from the International Mission Board from an interview of Butch Vernon, the chaplain of our 10-member Kentucky Baptist Convention Disaster Relief medical team that arrived home earlier this week. If you’ve been following the series, you know that Butch was the [...]

Dateline Haiti: God Revealed on Hectic Final Day

February 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the sixth of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city on Tuesday. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and [...]

Dateline Haiti: A Day of Miracles

February 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the fifth of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city on Tuesday. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and [...]

Dateline Haiti: New Life in the Rubble

February 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Haiti, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the fourth of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city on Tuesday. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and [...]

Dateline Haiti: Team Confronting Difficult Situations

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention

This is the third of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city on Tuesday. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and [...]