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If you have had Introduction to Disaster Relief and/or any specialized classes, and your class certification has expired or will expire this year, please take the opportunity and get re-certified, so that you may be able to serve when a disaster occurs. If you take Introduction to Disaster Relief, you need to recertify every 3 years, regardless of activation. To take Recertification class, you must be an existing volunteer.
Introduction to Disaster Relief and Specialized Classes – Lexington (West TN)
February 1 @ 7:30 am - 3:00 pm
February 1, 2025 – First Baptist Church, 50 Stanford Avenue, Lexington, TN 38351. To pre-register for this class, click here: https://beechriver.com/DRTrain with your names and classes desired.
Please pre-register by Monday, January 27, so that we can supply you with the proper training materials and/or lunch count on Saturday.
The credentialing fee is $40. This fee will cover not only the cost of the ID, hat, background check, and membership pin, but also the cost of any of the basic training courses a volunteer wants to take over the next 3 years.
Please bring exact cash or a check made payable to Tennessee Baptist Mission Board or TBMB ($40 – credentialing fee + $5 – lunch = $45/per person). Also bring all 4 registration forms that have been filled out and signed. This will help speed up registration.
To be fully credentialed, you will need to take at least one specialized class after you have taken the prerequisite course of “Introduction to Southern Baptist Disaster Relief.”
Saturday
7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Registration
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Introduction to Disaster Relief
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 p.m. Break
10:15 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. Chainsaw Operation & Safety
10:15 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. Damage Assessment
10:15 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. Flood Recovery
10:15 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. Spiritual Preparation/Evangelism – Part 1 of 2 (Must complete both parts of this course to receive certification)
(This class is for currently credentialed volunteers and needs to be taken in addition with another specialty class for callout purposes such as mass feeding, chainsaw, flood recovery, etc.; this class is to prepare you for a callout.)
12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch – $5/person
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Chainsaw Operation & Safety (repeat)
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Damage Assessment (repeat)
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Flood Recovery (repeat)
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Spiritual Preparation/Evangelism – Part 2 of 2 (Must complete both parts of this course to receive certification)
(This class is for currently credentialed volunteers and needs to be taken in addition with another specialty class for callout purposes such as mass feeding, chainsaw, flood recovery, etc.; this class is to prepare you for a callout.)
Registration Forms
Disaster Relief volunteers can now download the following forms to their computers and fill them out and bring them to the training. By typing these forms, it saves time with data entry and increasing accuracy of keeping your records.
Use this link to find the forms: https://tndisasterrelief.org/registration-forms/