William has traveled to quite a few places to serve food after a disaster, including the Virgin Islands. Despite the sometimes frequent travel, he doesn't mind that he isn't spending Easter with his family. Nationwide, there are 203 mobile units in the Southern Baptist relief fleet and 68 of them are feeding units. The others are used for recovery, child care and as command centers. In addition to serving meals, volunteers from the Southern Baptist Conventions are helping Alabama residents remove trees and clean up debris on their property, says Mickey Kason of the North American Mission Board, which coordinates multi-state disaster relief response.
All volunteers travel at their own expense, staying in churches, warehouse, etc.
It's not an obligation. In addition to their work in Alabama and Georgia, the Southern Baptist Conventions mounted a relief effort to help Arkansas residents after a tornado battered Manila and Jonesboro in the northeast corner of the state on Thursday. They also will serve meals to those affected by tornadoes in Tennessee.