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Featured Resources
The SBC of Virginia Disaster Relief Team has many resources to aid you in being prepared to respond to disasters.
• Training Manual
• What to Bring
• Order T-Shirts*
*A Box of 4 shirts is $35.00. Size selection is in checkout. Each box contains 4 shirts of the SAME size only. Only for those who have completed trainings.
Our History
SBC of Virginia Disaster Relief Ministry began in November 2002 with one shower unit built by Georgia men. We determined that our focus would be intentional evangelism, first, last, and always. Our goal is to go through the door God opens through disaster and minister to the victims’ spiritual needs. While we do this, we strive to meet their physical needs as well. In the eight years that we have been involved in this ministry our teams have lead dozens of people to Christ and planted untold thousands of seeds. We were deployed for the first time in May of 2003 to Indiana and Ohio in support of floods.
Missional Statement
SBC of Virginia Disaster Relief Volunteers will meet people in time of disaster and minister to their immediate needs while sharing the love of Christ.
“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, or in his disaster therefore cry out for help? Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?” – (JOB 30:24-25, NASB)
Core Values for Disaster Relief
SBC of Virginia Disaster Relief Volunteers provide service, witness, ministry, comfort and hope, in the crisis of a Disaster as we seek to stand firmly on the following core values.
Service to victims of disaster, their family and friends and other disaster relief workers by striving in the love of Christ to meet their physical needs. (Matthew 25:34-36 NASB)
Witness to victims of disaster, their family and friends and other disaster relief workers. They strive to meet spiritual needs by sharing the love of Christ and the truth of the Bible and that all people may receive the salvation that faith in Him makes possible. (Acts 1:7-8 NASB)
Ministry in the name of Jesus Christ seeking to serve the victims of disaster, their family and friends and other disaster relief workers with a distinctively Christian witness of care and compassion, striving to meet spiritual needs (2 Corinthians 5:18-21)
Comfort in the name of Jesus Christ seeking to serve the victims of disaster, their family and friends and other disaster relief workers. Through the ministry of their presence and through genuine Christian love they strive to comfort those who have experienced significant emotional upheaval as the result of disaster. (2 Corinthians 1:3-4 NASB)
Hope in the name of Jesus Christ seeking to serve the victims of disaster, their family and friends and other disaster relief workers. They strive share a sense of hope for the future in the midst of circumstances that may seem hopeless. (1 Peter 1:13)
Contact Our Team
MARK GAUTHIER
State Missions Strategist; Director of Disaster Relief and Virginia Global Response
MINDY MCCORD
Administrative Coordinator to the Missions Mobilization Team
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