Introduction to Disaster Relief and Chainsaw Operation & Safety – Dresden (West TN)

March 22, 2025 – First Baptist Church, 490 Morrow St, Dresden, TN 38225. To pre-register for this class, contact Tera Lochala at (731) 364-3739 or weakley.baptists@gmail.com with your name.

Please pre-register by Thursday, March 20th, so that we can supply you with the proper training materials.

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: WCBA (Weakley County Baptist Association) 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. – 12:15 p.m.      Chainsaw Operation & Safety (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/