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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, Flood Recovery, Chainsaw Operation & Safety, and Rebuild – Knoxville (East TN)
February 22 @ 7:30 am - 4:00 pm
February 22, 2025 – Mount Olive Baptist Church, 2500 Maryville Pike, Knoxville, TN 37920. To pre-register for this class, contact Lori Davis at (865) 577-5559 or ldavis@mobcknox.org with your names and classes desired.
Please pre-register by Monday, February 17, 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 check made payable to: TBMB or Tennessee Baptist Mission Board along with your registration forms to make registration move more smoothly and faster. See link below for registration forms.
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.”
7:30 – 8:00 a.m. Registration
8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Introduction to Disaster Relief (2 hour class)
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Flood Recovery (1 1/2-hour class)
11:45 – 12:15 p.m. Lunch – $6/person
12:15 – 2:15 p.m. Chainsaw Operation & Safety (2-hour class)
2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Break
2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Rebuild (1 1/2-hour class)
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/