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STATE OFFICEDick TalleyState Disaster Relief DirectorRae JonesAdministrative AssistantVOLUNTEER STAFF
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Hurricane Facts
· Hurricanes have both male and female names.
· Most hurricanes rage harmlessly at sea.
· Australians call hurricanes, willy-willies.
· The New England Hurricane of 1938 is reported to have the fastest forward speed for a hurricane at 70 mph.
· The forward speed for an average hurricane is less than 20 mph.
· Hurricanes have a generally circular shape that swirls about a central area called the "eye" of the hurricane.
· The "eye" of the hurricane can range from 3 to 230 miles in diameter.
· Directly outside of the "eye" is the "eyewall". The most violent portion of the entire hurricane. This is where the highest wind speeds and greatest precipitation is found.
· Hurricanes carry heat and energy away from the tropics and transport it toward temperate zones, relieving drought conditions.
· Tropical cyclones help to maintain a relatively stable and warm temperature worldwide.
· Modern hurricanes are referred to by a person's name. These names are officially decided upon by either the national weather offices, or the World Meteorological Organization.
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NOTE TO TRAINERS
Please be sure you are using the latest form for your Yellow Cap orientation and any other training sessions. The current form, "DISASTER RELIEF VOLUNTEER
REGISTRATION," is dated 3/15/2010. The form has
information not previously included, and it is important information that is needed in the office. All of the DR forms are available on the TBM
website under "DISASTER RELIEF." Also note that the TBM DR Uniform Order
Invoice and the Uniform Price List were updated 2/25/2010. If you are unable to download the forms, contact the DR office to receive them via
mail.
Please be prompt in mailing the registration forms to the Dixon Building. We sometimes receive inquiries and uniform requests from people who are
not in the database, and learn after some research that the training forms have not been received.
Thanks for your help in taking care of these administrative details and for your involvement in training DR volunteers.
LET US HEAR FROM YOU
If you have suggestions, comments or ideas for future issues of the Newsletter, click on the link below and let our Editor hear from you.
TBM-DR Newsletter Editor
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Eternal Life
Loving and obeying God will not necessarily make us rich, handsome or successful. In fact, the Bible actually promises that we will have to endure some scorn for holding fast to God. But, our present circumstances can't compare to what good lies ahead. "We have this assurance: Those who belong to God will live; their bodies will rise again! Those who sleep in the earth will rise up and sing for joy! For God's light of life will fall like dew on his people in the place of the dead."Isaiah 26: 19
"He who believes in God's Son has eternal life. Those who don't obey the Son will never experience eternal life., but the wrath of God remains upon them."John 3: 36
"Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die like everyone else, will live again. They are given eternal life for believing in me and will never perish."John 11: 25-26
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Financial Support
TBM appreciates your prayers and support of our Disaster Relief ministry. Without your financial support we would not be able to help so many hurting people in their hour of need. You may mail a gift to TBM at 5351 Catron, Dallas, Tx 75227 or give by credit card through our website at: www.texasbaptistmen.org. If you have any questions about a financial gift please call Mickey Lenamon at 214-828-5177. |
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 RIO GRANDE CITY SUFFERS MASSIVE FLOODING As reported by Ralph Rogers
The Paramount Baptist Church mudout unit deployed August 8, 2010 to Rio Grande City in response to a request for help from the Southern Baptist of Texas Convention. A mudout unit from Oklahoma also arrived. Two other SBTC mudout units were already on site.
Nine volunteers from around the state, with myself as Unit Director, responded with the unit and assisted in cleaning several houses. The work was difficult as the water had been in most of the houses for 2 - 3 weeks and mold was growing in many cases, to the ceiling. Eight jobs were completed by the team.
Ralph Rogers took this photo of the volunteers. The gentleman, third from the right, was one of the homeowners  |
During the eight day deployment, a total of 47 had prayed to receive Christ as a result of witnessing by all teams and chaplains in the field. Many of those saved were the homeowners and their families.
The work was extremely hard as the weather was very hot with daytime temperatures above 100 degrees and the heat index in excess of 110 degrees.
It is amazing to see God work among the people even when there was somewhat of a language barrier. The team stayed at FBC Rio Grande City, and food was provided by a cooking team from SBTC. The Paramount unit departed Rio Grande City on August 15 and was replaced by the mudout unit from Buna, with Mike Husbands as Unit Director. A total of five volunteers responded with the Buna unit. The Buna unit worked through the weekend and then returned home.
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 A Message From Dick Talley
YOU ARE INVITED!
The Bigger Breakfast - Food, Fellowship & Focus On Men's MinistrySeptember 25, 2010Mt. Lebanon Baptist Encampment1701 Texas Plume Road, Cedar Hill, TX 75104A really BIG breakfast: Bacon, sausage, eggs, hashbrowns, biscuits & gravy, pancakes, coffee, juice, cereal and milk ALL YOU CAN EAT!
Cost: Adults $10, 12 years and under $5
7:00 am - Coffee & Refreshments - DBA Disaster Relief Trailer7:30 am - Breakfast in Dining Hall9:00 am - Introduction - Bobby Martin, DBA Prayer - Dr. Bob Dean, DBA9:15 am - Men's Groups Testimonies10:00 am - Singing, Men's Quartet10:20 am - Mission Education Testimony - Michael Fore, RA/Missionary 10:40 am - "Grasp The Vision" - Larry Walker, International Evangelist 11:10 am - Conclusion - "Onward Christian Soldiers"11:15 am - Pass out 40-Day Prayer PlanFor information and registration:Milton Schmidt at 214-542-0866, or by email (click here)Registration requested by September 13The Mt. Lebanon Baptist Encampment is approx 20 minutes south of Dallas. For a map, CLICK HERE. |
Looking Back - June 1976
As reported by Jose Leal
El Buen Pastor at the First Baptist Church, Ingleside, Texas
In February of 1976, a large earthquake struck in Guatemala and created a lot of damage in the country.
Our Pastor, Rev. Alfonso Flores received a call from Dallas asking for volunteers to go to Guatemala. Volunteers were hard to find. I had asked everyone. One day Rev. Flores told me that I should go, that God wanted me to volunteer. That trip changed my life.
Restored photo taken in 1976 of team members  |
In June of 1976, 10 Baptist Men from Texas, went on that missionary trip to Guatemala. The main focus for this volunteer group was to reconstruct a Baptist church that had been destroyed in Totonicapan, Guatemala. Bob Dixon organized the trip. Among those who went were Bob Luce, Oscar Alex Leal, Don Wallace, Rosendo Lopez, Leo Bazaan. David Porter, and myself.
The group of 10 men arrived in Guatemala City, Guatemala on Sunday evening. The missionary at the Seminary, Brother Billings, picked us up at the airport and drove us to the seminary to spend the night. Before sun-up the next day, we departed to the project site which was 150 miles away in Totonicapan. The town is situated high up in the mountains at approximately 8200 feet altitude.
When the group arrived at the church project site in Totonicapan, there was only a partial foundation that needed to be repaired, and the size needed to be increased. There were no plans whatsoever for us to follow. The missionary brought in a borrowed set of plans that were from another church project in Guatemala. The set of plans did not pertain to the church's needs, so they were no help to this church's project.
We were in Totonicapan for about two weeks. The building was not finished by the time that we had to return to the U.S. Several courses of blocks still remained to be laid. Some of the window "openings" were framed in. 14 roof trusses were constructed and were left waiting for the next group to install into place.
A few weeks after the Texas Baptist Men returned to the U.S., a group of Alabama Baptist Men arrived in Totonicapan and completed the church project. God was magnified through this church project in Totonicapan, and to Him is all the honor and all the glory. ********
NOTE: Pastor Leal was President of the Varones Bautistas (Texas Baptist Men) at Trinity Baptist Church, Ingleside, Texas, in 1976. |
Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones
Technically, they are all called "tropical cyclones." A tropical cyclone off the southeastern part of the United States is called a hurricane. The same size storm in the western North Pacific is called a typhoon, and in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean it is called a cyclone.
On average, the United States experiences between eight and ten hurricanes along the gulf and east coast, and three to four along the Pacific coast every year.
On September 8, 1900, a hurricane made landfall at the small resort town of Galveston, Texas. By the time the hurricane moved inland, over 10,000 deaths from the storm were reported, 6000 from Galveston alone.
If a tornado is the most violent atmospheric effect, a hurricane is definitely the largest. Large hurricanes can expend enough energy in one day to provide the United States with enough energy for a week.
Hurricanes begin their lives as strong tropical storms resulting from a high-altitude, low pressure trough, near the equator. It is in this region, 30 degrees on either side of the equator, where the surface winds blow to the west in the North, and to the east in the South.
Convection updrafts draw the warm air and moisture up into the center of the low-pressure depression. As more and more air is drawn in, the airflow is diverted into a counterclockwise direction in the northern hemisphere. This rotation change is called the "Coriolis Effect", and is also what causes the clouds to arrange themselves in a spiral pattern. Once the surface wind speed reaches 74 mph, the storm becomes a tropical cyclone.
The season for tropical storms is about six months long, and runs from June through November.
Geosynchronous satellites, having a fixed position over the earth, have provided a wealth of warnings, and life-saving information, well in advance of a hurricane's landfall. The people of underdeveloped countries are still at great risk due to inadequate communication with their people.
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"And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory,
glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth."
John 1:14
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