Saturday, September 03, 2005

Baptist Hurricane Relief to Increase by Thousands of Volunteers
Saturday, Sep. 3, 2005 Posted: 3:53:05PM EST

Southern Baptist relief workers are engaging their current staff of 30,000 trained volunteers to reach out in a massive effort to provide help to Hurricane Katrina disaster relief. They will work in conjunction with other government and private relief groups.

Behind the Red Cross and Salvation Army, Southern Baptist Convention volunteers make up the third largest private relief group. They hope to increase the number of meals served to victims to 300,000 by this weekend and to 500,000 in the coming weeks.

"This undertaking is unprecedented in its scope," said Bob Reccord, president of the North American Mission Board of the SBC in a press release. He says the volunteers will reach out "in an operation of massive scale, never seen before in the United States."

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