Dozens of volunteers with the Missouri Baptist Convention are heading to New York to help victims of Superstorm Sandy.
Organizers of the Jefferson City-based group say their volunteers will provide meals for more than 600,000 people every day.
Volunteers are bringing two feeding kitchens, three portable showers and power generators to Middleton, New York. Members of the Missouri Baptist Convention’s Disaster Relief Team are linking up with several other agencies to supply thousands of meals to victims of Superstorm Sandy in New York. Different groups of volunteers will travel over the next several months to the east coast.
Disaster Relief Director Dwain Carter said, “We are going to take between 30 and 50 people each time to man the kitchens. We’ll be meeting up with our regional kitchens from Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas to supply these 600,000 meals.”
These volunteers are not just from Jefferson City. They come from all across the state. Volunteers say they are not only feeding bodies. They are feeding souls.
Carter said, “This is just a great opportunity for us to go and be on the forefront of helping people in their time of need telling them about Jesus and utilizing that effort to be able to start new churches in that area.”
Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers plan to leave Missouri tomorrow at 8:00 a.m.
They expect their trip to take about 24 hours.
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