Introduction to Disaster Relief and Specialized Classes – Knoxville (East TN)

November 9, 2024 – Grace Baptist Church, 7171 Oak Ridge Hwy, Knoxville, TN. To pre-register for this class, contact Cassie Williamson at cassie.williamson@gracebc.org with your names and classes desired.

Please pre-register by Monday, November 4, 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.

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 p.m.    Chainsaw Operation & Safety
10:15 a.m. – 11:45 p.m.    Flood Recovery
10:15 a.m. – 11:45 p.m.    Mass Feeding (Part 1 of 2)

11:45 – 12:15 p.m.             Lunch – $6/person

12:15 – 1:45 p.m.               Flood Recovery
12:15 – 1:45 p.m.               Mass Feeding (Part 2  of 2)
12:15 – 1:45 p.m.               Rebuild

1:45 – 2:00 p.m.                 Break

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.                 Shower & Laundry

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/