Thanks for Attending ALASKA BAPTIST DISASTER RELIEF TRAINING SESSIONS - Regional DR training sessions are coming to locations across Alaska in 2025!
Dear Alaska Baptist Disaster Relief Volunteers,
First, during this holiday time, I hope you find moments of peace and joy with your loved ones. May the spirit of Christmas fill your hearts with warmth! I want to join each of our 80 plus Alaska DR volunteers in saying - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! May the coming year bring health, happiness, and continued strength so all of us can minister together to bring Help, Hope and Healing across Alaska and beyond!
Second, let me again say thank-you to you for serving with Alaska Baptist DR. Thank you for being a beacon of light in times of darkness. Your willingness to train, prepare with a team, and then rush to the aid of those in need, often with personal sacrifice, exemplifies the true spirit of the 2024 Christmas season! Each act of kindness, every hour spent cleaning up property and every smile shared with those in distress, has made a profound difference. A few Alaska DR have had the opportunity to share the message of "New Life" following a disaster and their words have made an eternal difference. Regardless of whether you have been able to deploy in 2024 or not, thanks so much for your preparedness and heart for ministry.
And third, with the help of our lead Spiritual Care trainers, Tim and Jessica Brown, and our newly enlisted regional trainers, Alaska DR is preparing to guide our 3-hour "101" (basics class) that entitles an Alaska volunteer to "wear yellow!" Introduction to Alaska Baptist Disaster Relief will be offered in as many churches as possible in 2025 to assist every current volunteer to re-credential and with the goal of enlisting 50 new recruits to serve with us! One of these "101" sessions could be offered in your church. Contact me (www.abdr.org) and I will arrange for a regional trainer to come to your church, then would you please invite others from outside your own church to attend the session. You may want to add Disaster Preparedness (also known as Ready Church), or you may want to add the Spiritual Care Class to the agenda for a full day of training. Remember Titus 3:14, "And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful." Thanks in advance for helping us to strengthen and multiply our ministry force in 2025!
With heartfelt thanks,
Gary Bearce, ABDR Coordinator
Ready to take a closer look? Southern Baptist Disaster Relief is a Christian network bringing HELP, HOPE, and HEALING to people in crisis.
Alaska Baptist Disaster Relief, a ministry of the Alaska Baptist Resource Network, working with our national partner - Send Relief, is 1000s of local churches within 42 Southern Baptist State Conventions serving, preparing, and training collaboratively for God's glory and sharing God's great love for the good of people, especially during times of crisis when people are seeking answers! Alaska Baptist Disaster Relief offers preparation and training sessions throughout the year in local churches to enable families, church volunteers, and team members to respond in their community and throughout our state alongside FEMA, Emergency Management, and other government, private, and faith-based agencies and/or ministries.
With preparation and training within local churches and by "Calling Out" more than 95,000+ currently equipped volunteers on state disaster relief teams, we respond to most disasters in the US and 100s more across the world each year. "We envision all SBC life engaged in disaster relief preparation and training through the church, to serve the community, and for the Gospel." By God's grace, we bring Help and Hope, and the Gospel brings Healing. God started His kingdom on earth with Jesus – it is Good News! In a very troubled world, He is reconciling all things to himself (Col. 1:20).
Serving with you, Gary Bearce, Alaska Baptist Disaster Relief Coordinator
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