Baptists on Mission
Trained in rebuilding after disasters, NC Baptists now distribute food boxes
By Yonat Shimron — May 29, 2020
(RNS) — With a USDA grant, Baptists on Mission, an auxiliary of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, is remaking itself as a food distribution network in the wake of the coronavirus.
As religious groups weigh virus response, Samaritan’s Purse donates a field hospital
By Yonat Shimron — March 17, 2020
(RNS) — The donation of the field hospital in Cremona, in northern Italy’s hardest-hit Lombardy region, represents one of the largest faith-based responses to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Faith-based disaster-relief teams on standby as Florence nears
By Yonat Shimron — September 12, 2018
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — The biggest of the volunteer groups ready to clean up from Hurricane Florence have the words ‘Baptist’ and ‘Methodist’ in their titles.
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