September 13-14, 2024 – Red Bank Baptist Church, 4000 Dayton Boulevard, Chattanooga, TN 37415. To pre-register for this class, use the following link:  Disaster Relief Training – Red Bank. 

Please preregister by Monday, September 9, so that we can supply you with the proper training materials and get a lunch count for Saturday.

The credentialing fee is $40 (effective January 1, 2023). 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.

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.”

Friday, September 13, 2024

5:30 – 6:00 p.m.                Registration

6:00 – 9:00 p.m.                Chaplaincy (Requires letter of recommendation) (Continues all day on Saturday)

Saturday, September 14, 2024

7:45 – 8:15 a.m.                    Registration

8:15 – 10:15 a.m.                 Introduction to Disaster Relief

8:15 – 10:15 a.m.                 Chaplaincy (continued)

10:15 – 10:30 a.m.              Break

10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.    Chainsaw Operation & Safety (classroom)

10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.    Chaplaincy (continued)

10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.    Shower and Laundry

12:30 – 1:00 p.m.                 Lunch ($7 for those that pre-register)

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.                   Flood Recovery

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.                   Chaplaincy (continued)

For any questions contact Doyle Pittman at [email protected]  or (423) 240-1274.

Registration Forms

Disaster Relief volunteers can now download the following forms to their computers and fill them out and bring them with you to training or send them to the DR office. By typing these forms, you are helping us save time with data entry and increasing our accuracy of keeping your records.

Use this link to find the forms: https://tndisasterrelief.org/registration-forms/