Recent Disaster Response Projects

Almost one year to the date of Hurricane Idalia hitting this same area of Florida, Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4. This region has been ravished by three hurricanes now in the past 13 months. We joined the Chainsaw Army, consisting of ministry partners from Youth-Reach Gulf Coast, Frontline Ministries, and White Dove Ministries to cut trees, tarp roofs, bring hope, and share the love of Jesus with this hard hit area.

I partnered with Youth-Reach Gulf Coast and headed to Houston, TX after Hurricane Beryl. The first two days we focused on their other campus, Youth-Reach Houston, which is for boys 12-17 years of age. After we cleaned up their campus, we went into the city to help several widows, elderly, and handicapped. The Houston area was without power for 6 days with temperatures around 100 degrees.

We locked arms with 30 men from several other local ministries to bring much needed relief, hope, and the love of Jesus to this area after a powerful Category 4 caused significant damage. 

We spent several days working in the hardest-hit and most poverty-stricken areas after an EF2 hit historic Selma. We focused on repairing and putting tarps on roofs before more rain came.

Just weeks before Christmas, a violent EF4 ripped through western Kentucky, producing severe and catastrophic damage. We partnered with several other ministries and took a team of 15 to Mayfield.

Just two months later, another EF3 tornado hit Birmingham directly. We removed several trees off homes and removed debris.

After a tornado with winds over 150 mile per hour winds tore through this small community outside of Birmingham, we sent a small team to cut trees and removed debris.

When a hurricane steamrolled our own community, bringing tornadoes and dumping 20 inches of rain in Baldwin County, we spent three months offering emergency help and clean up.

We traveled to Hammond & St Rose, Louisiana several times with partnering ministries to offer hope, deliver supplies, tree removal, and roof repair.

We traveled to Lake Charles, Louisiana with several partnering ministries to offer hope, relief, and tree removal after Hurricane Laura.

I flew up to my home state of MI and joined “Sanford Strong” along with some friends and relatives to muck out homes flooded after the Edenville and Sanford dams collapsed.

We traveled the Florida panhandle several times, working to help rebuild Mexico Beach and Panama City, cities that suffered the worst of Hurricane Michael.

Our team of 20 took four vehicles and two trailers to help victims of Hurricane Florence that impacted the east coast.