Disaster Relief

Colorado Baptist Disaster Relief

Welcome to the home page for Colorado Baptist Disaster Relief here you will find:

  • A brief history of CBDR and our responses over the years.
  • How you can connect to CBDR through training opportunities and how you can become inolved individually, as a church, through your association, state and nationally.
  • What resources does CBDR curently have available in its inventory and what are the dreams, plans, needs for equipment.
  • Who does CBDR partner with locally, regionally and nationally to accomplish the task of not only meeting the physical needs of those effected by disaster but meeting spiritual needs of all those we come in contact with.
  • How you can give to CBDR financially, in-kind and with material.

Browse through the below pages to find out more about this information. If you have questions, please feel free to send a note to DisasterRelief@cbgc.org or call Kris Cockerham at 888-771-2480 xt. 228 Read more

Sustaining Hope, Sustaining Relations

Posted Tue, 2010-06-08 14:09 by Christy McDonie
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The earthquake that shattered Haiti back in January seems to have faded from Americans’ memories, and many relief efforts have waned, or died. But in Westminster, CO, the work still continues at home and abroad.
 
A couple weeks after the devastation occurred, it was still on the minds of members at Community of Grace. The church, led by Pastor Joel Bundick, is a mission-oriented church, according to member Jerry Glass. “We’ve got a lot of feelers out all over the world,” member Jerry Glass explained, naming an orphanage, a pastor in Nigeria and local communities as just a few ministries the church supports. “We have 12-plus financial commitments to these kinds of ministries on a monthly basis,” he said.
 
At the same time, Colorado Baptist Disaster relief volunteers had been working on the Buckets of Hope project, a relief effort for Haiti providing buckets of food to Haitians. A number of churches across the state of Colorado encouraged their congregations to purchase and fill buckets, which the disaster relief team at CBGC later packed and shipped to Haiti. A few members of Community of Grace are a part of the CBGC disaster relief team, and brought it to the church’s attention.
 
“Lord, what are we gonna do about all these disasters?”
 

Colorado Collected 1540+ Buckets of Hope

Posted Mon, 2010-03-01 11:28 by Christy McDonie
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Colorado Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers have been working at Ponderosa Retreat & Conferece Center getting the buckets ready for shipment to Haiti. We would like to send a BIG Thank You to all of our Colorado Baptist Churches; the 20+ volunteers that helped inspect and prepare the buckets for shipment to Miami; and the Ponderosa Retreat and Conference Center for allowing us to store the buckets until shipment. We collected 1543 buckets! Read more

Haiti Update-11-FEB

Posted Thu, 2010-02-11 11:27 by Mike Gaines
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HAITI UPDATE- 2-11-2010

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief is on the ground and functioning in Haiti!  SBCDR has established an Incident Command, has numerous medical teams operating across the affected area and has started doing assessments of homes and chaplaincy work with those families.  The conditions are still very harsh but SBCDR is beginning to help the Haitians look to their future, physically and spiritually.

Back home, Colorado Baptists are doing their part to assist in the recovery efforts as well:

From Colorado, Dolores Southern Baptist Church wrote the Baptist Global Response office to say they showed slides of the devastation in Haiti and took up an offering of $1,000 for Haiti relief. As the church treasurer, Colleen Smith, was organizing the money, a 9-year-old boy ran up to her and said, "Wait until I go to the van. I want to help." Read more

How are Colorado Baptists Responding to Haiti?

Posted Mon, 2010-02-01 10:27 by Christy McDonie
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Many of you have asked, “What are Colorado Baptists doing in response to the tragedy in Haiti?”  Colorado Baptist Disaster Relief is working with our national and international partners in planning response in the near future you can check for those updates here.

But we as Colorado Baptists do have at least one of our own on the ground in Haiti.  Aaron Dramann, the son of Larry Dramann, Pastor of East Boulder Baptist Church is working with the International Mission Board-FUSION team.  The FUSION program blends rigorous personal and spiritual disciplines with challenging opportunities for ministry leadership and practice.

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Colorado Baptist Disaster Relief - Haiti Update

Posted Thu, 2010-01-14 12:40 by Christy McDonie
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Thank you all for your continued prayer and your sacrificial gifts to this effort.  There have been a number of Colorado Baptist churches that I am aware of that have given to the relief efforts in Haiti and I am sure many more that I am not.  Below you will find the most current information regarding SBDR response to Haiti, with commentary in italics.


1. Southern Baptist (SB) Disaster Relief Operation

  • SB assessment team to return to Florida for debriefing on Tuesday.
  • SB Disaster Relief network to enter the strategy development phase.
  • SB Disaster Relief volunteers are not first responders (i.e. military, fire fighter, police officers, rescue & recovery teams).  While some of our volunteers may actually be first responders by trade/career, we are not a first response organization…we are a relief organization.  We will continue to support first responders but the bulk of OUR response will be over the long term.  It has been said, “When the cameras go home, we come in.”

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Mesa Verde Baptist Association Launches Disaster Relief

Posted Thu, 2009-05-21 10:08 by Mike Gaines
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La Plata Airport, Durango, CO- the air was broken by the sounds of a large explosion and gunfire as an attempted hijacking left several dead and nearly 50 injured.  “Operation Thunderbird,” a large mock disaster at Durango’s La Plata Airport was the scene of Mesa Verde Baptist Association’s first disaster relief response. Read more

The Bridge: Connecting Volunteers with Opportunities

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Are you looking for workers for a missions project?  Are you looking for a place to serve?  The Bridge can help with both!

 

The Bridge is an online connection point put together by the North Amercican Mission Board.  Go to thebridge.namb.net  and fill out a form describing your ministry and the types of workers you need or browse the listings to find where you might be most gifted to serve.  There are opportunites ranging from construction to Vacation Bible School. 

Try out The Bridge and get connected.

What happens to children after a disaster?

Posted Thu, 2007-06-07 15:11 by Kristin Cockerham
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The Disaster Relief Team of the Colorado Baptist General Convention is currently developing a Temporary Child Care Unit to be used in emergency and disaster settings around the state and nation.  This unit will be staffed with trained and screened volunteers to work in conjunction with other national agencies to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the smallest victims. 

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