BDM awarded grant for Tennessee flood recovery
July 19, 2011
Brethren Disaster Ministries has been awarded a grant for $52,500 from the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee to help support its flood recovery efforts. BDM volunteers are engaged in home repair and rebuilding in the Nashville area.

Children’s Disaster Services responds in Joplin
June 14, 2011
Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) volunteers are caring for children in Joplin, Missouri in the aftermath of the tornado that caused massive destruction on Sunday, May 22.

Virginia Disaster Response television feature
June 8, 2011
Jim Kropff, Virlina District disaster coordinator, was interviewed in Pulaski County, Virginia, on June 8, 2011 about disaster response work following devastating tornadoes.

Children's Disaster Services television interview
June 6, 2011
Children's Disaster Services was in the news in Joplin, Missouri on June 6, 2011. KOAM TV interviewed Cheryl Dekker about the work of CDS following recent devastating tornadoes.

Brethren Disaster Ministries trains project leaders for 2013
(May 16, 2013)
On April 23, I traveled to Prattsville, N.Y., to undergo training to become a Disaster Project Leader. Disaster Project Leaders are wonderful men and women called to lead and guide volunteers who come out to Brethren Disaster Ministries rebuilding sites for a week. I was very excited to learn all that happened behind the scenes to keep the project sites running.

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Children’s Disaster Services to work in Boston following bombing
(April 19, 2013)
A team from Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) is traveling to Boston to help care for children and family affected by the bombings at the Boston Marathon.

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Children’s Disaster Services offers training workshop in New England
(April 18, 2013)
Children’s Disaster Services is offering a New England training workshop on May 3-4 in Litchfield, Conn., at Friendship Baptist Church. This is one of a series of CDS workshops in Connecticut. The workshops in Connecticut after this will give state residents priority, but for this workshop registration numbers are unlimited.

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