Care during COVID: Keeping safe while serving, US church groups tackle pandemic and protests
JOSHUA EATON, writing for Religion News Service, reports on how US churches are supporting people through the crises facing the nation…
Trained in rebuilding after disasters, North Carolina Baptists now distribute food boxes
RNS They’re best known for their post-hurricane disaster relief efforts – ripping up homes damaged by floodwaters and rehabilitating them from the studs. But in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Baptists on Mission, an auxiliary of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, is remaking itself as a food distribution network, delivering boxes of produce […]
As religious groups weigh virus response, Samaritan’s Purse donates a field hospital
RNS A DC-8 aircraft carrying an emergency field hospital and a team of 32 technicians and medical personnel took off from Greensboro, North Carolina, on Tuesday for Cremona, Italy, to set up a triage operation outside a hospital there. The massive shipment is a donation from Samaritan’s Purse, the evangelical humanitarian relief organisation headed by […]
In the US, faith-based disaster relief teams on standby as Florence nears
RNS On top of all the state and federal disaster relief groups readying for Hurricane Florence as it barrels toward North and South Carolina are a group of expert helpers: the faith teams. The biggest of these, North Carolina Baptists on Mission and the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church, have made a name for themselves […]