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  • SBC meals top 1 million in a week;

    09/09/2005 5:46:07 PM PDT · by twntaipan · 5 replies · 332+ views
    Baptist Press ^ | Sep 9, 2005 | Staff
    Pitching inMobile resident Stella Lewis (right) helps serve hot meals alongside Denise Weaver, a member of the Etowah Baptist Association (Alabama) disaster relief team, at Moffett Road Baptist Church in Mobile. Photo by Doug Rogers/Alabama State Board of Missions ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--In the first week of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief efforts, volunteers prepared more than 1.3 million meals in the Gulf Coast area devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Jim Burton, director of the North American Mission Board’s volunteer mobilization team, said he expects Southern Baptist’s national disaster relief response to quickly eclipse disaster services provided following four hurricanes in Florida...