In Appalachia, Helene’s Water Crisis Taps a Global Christian Response

Posted on Oct 9, 2024 in disaster relief, Emily Belz, Hurricanes, North Carolina, Samaritan’s Purse, Tennessee, water, World Vision

International Christian engineering nonprofit Water Mission usually responds to clean water crises overseas, like flooding in East Africa this year or the earthquake in Turkey last year. But when the South Carolina–based organization saw the extensive damage to Western North Carolina’s water infrastructure after the historic storm Helene, it decided to activate a rare disaster Read more…

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Facing My Limits in a Flood Zone

Posted on Oct 9, 2024 in disaster relief, Humility, Ideas, Natural Disasters, North Carolina, Spiritual Formation, Weakness

When we moved to the small town of Canton, North Carolina, last fall, we heard stories about flooding. Living in the mountains spells unpredictability. In 2021, Tropical Storm Fred flooded the river that runs through our city, destroying significant portions of the downtown area. Some homes and businesses were lost. So when we heard that Read more…

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A Hurricane Doesn’t Tell Us Who to Hate

Posted on Oct 2, 2024 in disaster relief, Natural Disasters, Problem of Evil, Public Theology, Public Theology Project, Russell Moore, Social Media, theology

This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. My family is from one of the most hurricane-prone places in the United States—our hometown was virtually wiped from the map by Hurricane Katrina. Because of this, we spend hurricane season tracking each tropical depression with dread and then, often, relief, when the storm moves somewhere out Read more…

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Widespread Helene Misery Stretches Christian Relief Groups

Posted on Sep 30, 2024 in disaster relief, Emily Belz, Florida, Georgia, Hurricanes, Natural Disasters, North Carolina, Salvation Army, Samaritan’s Purse, Tennessee

Devastating hundreds of miles from the Florida Gulf Coast to Georgia to the mountains of North Carolina, Hurricane Helene has created a complicated equation for Christian organizations that are on the frontline of disaster response. “In my more than 20 years of disaster experience, I can’t think of a time when such a large area Read more…

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Spanish Book Drive

Posted on Jun 8, 2022 in Bible, Books, children, children's evangelism, disaster relief, donate, donation, Education, Escrito Está, Evangelism, give, help, hispanic ministry, hurricane, It Is Written, it is written missions, kids, library, mission, mission trip, Mission Trips, missions, read, serve, service, spanish, spanish ministry, Updates

 📚 We are collecting Spanish children’s books for our mission trip to Puerto Rico. The school library in Vieques was wiped out by a hurricane, and we would love to give them as many books as we can!  Books must be: 📕 in Spanish 📘 spiritual or educational 📗 for children in grades K-6 📙…