ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)–Baptist volunteers from North Carolina and Virginia are en route to West Virginia to assist with cleanup and recovery efforts in the wake of weekend floods in the southwest corner of the state.
More than 200 homes in Mingo and Logan counties reportedly are flooded, reported Leon White, disaster relief director for the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists.
White said a team of volunteers is traveling from North Carolina June 2 to assist in the cleanup and damage assessment efforts. A mobile kitchen unit from the Baptist General Association of Virginia, meanwhile, has been activated to help the American Red Cross prepare and distribute 8,000 meals on June 3. Mickey Caison, off-site coordinator with the North American Mission Board’s Disaster Relief Operations Center, said the mobile kitchen unit will be set up at Omar High School in Omar, W.Va.
Caison added that Southern Baptist Disaster Relief responses also are being handled locally by volunteers in Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska and Virginia.
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