We’re excited to share this recent video about PAR that was filmed during our spring 2025 deployment to Mississippi. This interview with our volunteer Bob Gathany, captured by Bill Reddoch Outdoors, highlights what Prepare and Respond is all about—ordinary people showing up in extraordinary moments to help communities recover after disaster. During...
On Thursday night, July 10, our PAR volunteers met to sharpen chainsaws, check equipment, and prepare for a possible deployment to Texas to assist with flood recovery. It wasn’t glamorous work—but it was important and necessary work. This kind of preparation may seem small, but it's where service truly begins. With...
On Friday, May 9, 2025, PAR volunteers stepped up to help neighbors in Limestone and Madison Counties recover from storm damage. At one property, the team cleared limbs and cut through the massive 55-inch trunk of a fallen water oak tree. The homeowner—a 98-year-old man who still drives 30 miles to...
We appreciate our PAR volunteers who worked in the Blossomwood area of Huntsville on Thursday, May 16, clearing tree debris from storms the previous week. ...
We appreciate our PAR volunteers who worked alongside Mercy Chefs in their warehouse in Tanner, Alabama, on March 5-7. They helped pack 2,000 food boxes to be delivered to families after natural disasters. We are thankful for ministry partners like Mercy Chefs who have helped feed our own volunteers during past...
We're so grateful to our PAR volunteers who worked in Clarksville, TN, December 12-16, after a devastating tornado outbreak came through Tennessee on December 9, 2023. The strongest of these tornadoes was an EF-3 that touched down near Clarksville and stayed on the ground for more than an hour. Thanks to...
Our volunteers have been busy the past couple of weeks cleaning up damage from storms in Madison County. We appreciate all they did to help local homeowners with fallen trees and damaged roofs. Here are a few photos of our helpers in action. See more photos on our Facebook page. ...
Our volunteers are the best at sacrificing their time and energy to help those in need. We appreciate all who were available to work in Adamsville, TN, in April. This community was hit by an EF-3 tornado on Friday, March 31, damaging or destroying over 100 homes. We're also grateful for...
We're grateful for our PAR volunteers who spent several days this week in Amory, Mississippi. They were able to help several residents clean up their properties after tornadoes came through on Friday night, March 24, damaging or destroying many homes in this small city of 7,500 people in northeast Mississippi. Please...
We appreciate our PAR volunteers who traveled to Selma, Alabama, in January 2023 to help clean up storm damage. Tornadoes ripped through Selma and other Alabama and Georgia counties on Thursday, January 12. See their work below. View more photos on our PAR Facebook page. ...