In the News ... "First Baptist Church holds a hurricane relief drive in Midland’"

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• What do people need? Anything and everything.

By Eduardo Huijon, Jr., Reporter
• KOSA-TV

MIDLAND, TEXAS - First Baptist Church in Midland spent their Sunday assembling a drive-thru relief event.

The purpose was to help out Williams Boulevard Baptist Church in Kenner, Louisiana, which was heavily impacted by the hurricane.

“We knew some folks down there that needed some help, a church that we knew the pastor there, and so we decided to call him, get in touch with him, ask him how we can help him, and so we were able to send one truck with a generator, and now this we’re just doing supplies”, says Moe Bomer, the business administrator for First Baptist Church ...

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In the News ... "'Permian Basin Red Cross aids Ida recovery"

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• Getting volunteers to travel and help set up shelters is only one part of the chapter’s job

By Avi Carr-Gloth, Reporter
• KMID-TV/KPEJ-TV

MIDLAND, TEXAS - Even though Ida is far from West Texas, the American Red Cross-Permian Basin chapter is important to the regional relief effort ...

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In the News ... "Red Cross looking for volunteers to help Hurricane Ida evacuees"

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• Looking for an ‘unlimited’ amount of volunteers

By Stephanie Douglas, Reporter
• KOSA-TV

ODESSA/MIDLAND, TEXAS - The American Red Cross-Permian Basin is looking for volunteers to work in shelters housing Hurricane Ida evacuees.

Right now, the American Red Cross has set up over 60 shelters with 700 volunteers all over the world helping those who have been affected by the hurricane.

The Permian Basin Chapter of the Red Cross is actively looking for volunteers to join them for two weeks in the hard-hit areas on the Gulf Coast ...

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