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Tennessee DR continues response in Ga.
10/14/2009
Baptist and Reflector
BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief continued as of press time on Monday to help flood victims in Georgia by doing laundry from a laundry unit. The volunteers were serving in Austell, Ga., where they began work Oct. 8. They also served in Marietta, Ga., Oct. 2-8.
Tennessee state disaster relief director David Acres said the laundry unit from the Watauga Baptist Association, Elizabethton, served Oct. 2-8 at an American Red Cross emergency shelter, which was housed in the Cobb County Civic Center in Marietta. Then the Tennessee unit was relocated Oct. 8 by the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board, Alpharetta, Ga., to First Baptist Church, Austell, to help disaster relief volunteers from NAMB and the Red Cross.
The volunteers had completed 375 loads of laundry in Marietta, Ga., and in Austell, Ga., as of press time. In Marietta they served the 200 flood victims housed in the emergency shelter, Red Cross volunteers and Southern Baptist Convention disaster relief volunteers
Earlier, disaster relief volunteers from Hamilton County Baptist Association, Chattanooga, responded to the flooding in East Ridge and Trion, Ga., Sept. 21-26. The teams cooked meals in Chattanooga’s Brainerd Baptist Church.
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