Volunteer Efforts

Volunteer Efforts | Feb. 18 2021
Southern Baptist churches, Dallas faith groups help shelter homeless Texans during deep freeze
Several Texas churches are serving as warming shelters after a spike in the state’s power grid put millions in the dark and without heat.…

Volunteer Efforts | Jan. 30 2021
Refugees in South Africa overcome fear to seek faith in Jesus Christ
In a pitch-black room, David and Julie Yngsdal sat down to study the Bible with David and Zawadi, a refugee couple. The Yngsdals serve with the…

Volunteer Efforts | Dec. 21 2020
Harvest Community Charities distributes Christmas food boxes to needy in Jefferson County
Volunteers from 11 churches lined up early today (Dec. 21) at Sixth Avenue Baptist Church, Birmingham, to receive food boxes for distribution…

Volunteer Efforts | Dec. 3 2020
Soup, soap and socks: Volunteers bring cheer to ill students
When Nanci Bramson’s daughter tested positive for the coronavirus while far away at school in Michigan, it threw a fright into the Washington,…

Volunteer Efforts | Dec. 3 2020
Churches, Operation Christmas Child adapt to provide shoebox gifts amid pandemic
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Debbie Smith of Walden Chapel Baptist Church, Danville, began sewing face masks to give to family and friends.…

Volunteer Efforts | Nov. 20 2020
Global Christian community called to help Armenian evangelicals serve refugees
Global Christian leaders are calling on believers worldwide to respond to the expansive and ongoing need of more than 150,000 Armenian refugees…

Volunteer Efforts | Nov. 4 2020
Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers called out once again following Hurricane Zeta
Mark Wakefield says Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers have been working steadily for a long time as hurricane after hurricane has pounded…

Volunteer Efforts | Sep. 16 2020
Update: Romar Beach Baptist Church, Camp Baldwin receive extensive damage as Hurricane Sally makes landfall; Alabama cleanup begins
Romar Beach Baptist Church in Orange Beach and Camp Baldwin in Elberta each sustained significant damage as Hurricane Sally made landfall in…

Volunteer Efforts | Aug. 18 2020
Missionaries gain access to Amazon’s Indigenous peoples despite pandemic
When the first COVID-19 cases hit Brazil in March, the government agency in charge of protecting the country’s Indigenous peoples, the National…