Overview
Hurricane Ian crashed into Florida’s Gulf Coast on September 28 as a Category-4 storm, bringing catastrophic winds, rains and storm surge to cities in its direct path. The massive storm carried 155 mile-per-hour winds, putting the storm just below the Category-5 threshold. Florida residents are facing widespread flooding, power outages and wind damage to homes.
Send Relief is working closely with Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) teams to meet immediate needs in the aftermath of the storm.
So far, Send Relief has sent three shipments packed with bottled water, temporary roofing, shockwave and other emergency supplies to Florida to help SBDR volunteers serve affected communities. Send Relief also deployed a rescue boat manned by North Carolina and Tennessee Baptist disaster relief teams for search and rescue missions immediately after the storm passed.
Volunteers are engaging in emergency feeding, flood recovery, debris clean-up and other relief efforts at several response sites across Southwest Florida.
Your gifts to Send Relief’s 2022 Hurricane Response Fund are vital to these relief efforts.
Thank you for praying for the people impacted by this massive hurricane, as well as the many volunteers that will be meeting immediate and long-term needs in Florida.
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From The Field
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Survivors’ Stories After Hurricane Ian and Send Relief’s Ongoing Response
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Best of Southern Baptist cooperative efforts on display in disaster relief response
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Hurricane Ian recovery ramps up as Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, Send Relief assist
FORT MYERS, Fla. – As Hurricane Ian rolled in Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 28, Wade Harmon was …Hurricane Ian recovery ramps up as Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, Send Relief assist Read More »
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Ian lashes Georgia, South Carolina as Baptist response efforts gear up in Florida
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As Ian bears down on Florida, Southern Baptists prepare response
LEESBURG, Fla. (BP) — Hurricane Ian continued to strengthen Wednesday morning as it approached Florida’s Gulf …As Ian bears down on Florida, Southern Baptists prepare response Read More »