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W. A. C. Disaster Relief Feeding unit.
Our association provides one of the regional Texas , Southern Baptist, & American Red Cross approved Disaster Relief Units. This feeding unit is maintained and staffed by W.A.C. volunteers who are ready to respond within hours of a disaster.
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For a complete day by day report with pictures of our Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief Ministry follow this link
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W.A.C. Disaster Relief Team
dispatched to Silsbee, Texas!
Our WAC Disaster Relief Team has been activated for Hurricane Rita relief duty in Silsbee, Texas. The team is being formed and will leave early this coming Friday morning, October 21st. Warren Hall will Blue Hat Captain our WAC team for this important new assignment.
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WAC Disaster Team responds to local Hurricane Rita service request:
10/17/05 WAC Team completes its work at Chaparral.
The last of our Hurricane Rita House Guest at Chaparral left for home today and our WAC Disaster Relief team has completed yet another all important mission appointment. To date, we have had over 55 WAC Disaster Relief volunteers involved in just the past three weeks at Chaparral. Thanks to all who have helped serve in Jesus' Name.
9/26/09 Disaster Workers continue good work at Camp Chaparral.
While camp guests evacuated from southeast Texas still take shelter at Camp Chaparral at least through Wednesday, we have activated a new team of WAC Disaster Relief Feeding Unit volunteers. The work will be split into two daily shifts running from 6AM to 3 PM and from 2PM until 8:30 PM. In addition to the previously mentioned WAC Disaster Relief workers, we have the following team members also volunteering at Chaparral for the continued work: Linda and Dennis Simco, Larry Toney, Harvey McMurry, Nate and Louise Adams, Richard Chamberlain, Glen Moret, Dee Sykes, Pat Robbins, Charles and Sug McKee, Jerry and Cindy Clifton, Larry Thompson, John, Dulaney, Susan Biddy, Tim Hunter, Terry and Vereda Koch, Richard and Pat Davis, Glen and Jerrye Pearce, Chuck Nordstrom, Ellen Sasser, Pat Fullerton, Wayne Williams, Pat Leath, Joe Singer, Carl Watson, Opla Klempa, Terrel and Judy Silvers, Ronnie Hibbs, Ronnie Fox, Larry Robinson, Charlie Russell, C.J. Russell, Tom Malaise, Joel Malaise, Robert Prothro, Kris Mathis, Jackie Rhoten, Bob Mayfield, and Don Lewis .
9/23/05
Disaster Relief Team Members assigned to Camp Chaparral.
Starting this morning members of our W. A. C. Disaster Relief Field Kitchen Staff have been assigned to assist our Camp Chaparral staff with Hurricane Rita Evacuee Houseguest. The following WAC Disaster Relief team members have been assigned to this very important ministry task: Ellery and Betty Lawrence, T.L. and Jean Cook, J.D. and Julaine Jones, Warren Hall and Gene Pepiton.
9/21/05
W. A. C. Disaster Team home safely after duty assignment in Houston.
With our assigned task completed and after a special victory and recognition breakfast hosted by our friends at Second Baptist Church in Houston, our WAC Team departed Houston, just ahead of an expected mandatory evacuation order in anticipation of Hurricane Rita's scheduled Saturday afternoon landfall with category 4 class winds in Galveston, located some 45 miles south of Houston. National Southern Baptist Convention, and State Texas Baptist Men, and Southern Baptist of Texas Command Staff leadership all praised the WAC Team for its Command Leadership, hard work and team member dedication to excellence. Yet, along with those words of congratulations also came the request for our WAC Team to immediately remain on a "Special Standby Alert"status for possible redeployment to another Special Disaster strike area as needed. The team immediately joined thousands of other Houston area residents as we evacuated the area, but this time with our sights firmly fixed on Wichita Falls and home.
Disaster responses include:
(Click on a response for pictures)
1992 -Tornado relief in Donna, TX. 1994 - Fed over 48,500 Houston flood victims in 11 days.
1996 - Provided meals for Baptist Men state training on two occasions.
1998 - Crew manned the Texas 18 wheeler unit for a week in Del Rio, TX.
Responded to flood in San Antonio,TX. to feed over 25,000 meals in 9 days.
1999 - Responded to Oklahoma Tornado.
2000 - Team served in response to New Mexico forest fires.
2001 - Served 12,000 meals in Clarksville, TX. after the Northeast Texas ice storms.
Served 136,000 meals in response to Houston Floods.
2002 - Saw action in flood relief in Kerrville, TX.
2 weeks in response to the Forest Fires in Arizona.
2003 - The unit was activated for service in Maryland, following Hurricane Isabel.
2004 - The team was called into action twice following the Gulf Hurricanes.
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