Rev. Bill Crawford

If you think I know and you don't see me, Make sure I know, because maybe I don't. And that has happened as well.

If you think I know and you don't see me, Make sure I know, because maybe I don't. And that has happened as well.

Yeah. So again, that's every church is different. Every approach is different. You know, I was on the National Disaster Relief Committee for its first year founding, worked with that committee, very proud of their work, very proud to be involved with the group that they collected, Whitney Alexander and one of the co-chairs at this point. He was the chair at that point.

Yeah. So again, that's every church is different. Every approach is different. You know, I was on the National Disaster Relief Committee for its first year founding, worked with that committee, very proud of their work, very proud to be involved with the group that they collected, Whitney Alexander and one of the co-chairs at this point. He was the chair at that point.

And what I learned there, and I'm gonna get to your question, is that disasters are something that happened to me, to my community. They're not something I go looking for. So a lot of people that do disaster relief, do disaster relief work, that they are in the missions of doing disaster relief, it's actually something they go looking to do because they have a heart to help people.

And what I learned there, and I'm gonna get to your question, is that disasters are something that happened to me, to my community. They're not something I go looking for. So a lot of people that do disaster relief, do disaster relief work, that they are in the missions of doing disaster relief, it's actually something they go looking to do because they have a heart to help people.

It's not that I don't have a heart to help people, but that's not really my calling. I'm a pastor. It's funny because I've become known as a disaster relief guy. So the nickname is the pastor of disaster. And the reality is I've been through over 20 named hurricanes, storms, I guess, tropical storms and hurricanes since I've been here, probably without any kind of bragging.

It's not that I don't have a heart to help people, but that's not really my calling. I'm a pastor. It's funny because I've become known as a disaster relief guy. So the nickname is the pastor of disaster. And the reality is I've been through over 20 named hurricanes, storms, I guess, tropical storms and hurricanes since I've been here, probably without any kind of bragging.

I think it'd be very honest. I've been here 23 years. have been through more name storms than any other pastor in the EPC. The only one close would be Whitney Alexander, but Whitney is someone who goes after this and he goes into it and he does the work in an amazing way.

I think it'd be very honest. I've been here 23 years. have been through more name storms than any other pastor in the EPC. The only one close would be Whitney Alexander, but Whitney is someone who goes after this and he goes into it and he does the work in an amazing way.

So I want to be careful with that because it's not that we as a church have made this conscious decision to go chase down disasters all over the world and be involved. When a storm happens, we engage. Now, we've engaged at all kinds of different levels. And so the small church can engage at all kinds of different levels. They can have a dramatic impact in a disaster or a very small.

So I want to be careful with that because it's not that we as a church have made this conscious decision to go chase down disasters all over the world and be involved. When a storm happens, we engage. Now, we've engaged at all kinds of different levels. And so the small church can engage at all kinds of different levels. They can have a dramatic impact in a disaster or a very small.

So it needs to be discerned in each church what their engagement would be, how they would approach it, how they would engage. Often that happens very organically. My friend Rob McClellan is in North Carolina right now. And they ended up cooking in the church because they had gas stoves and gas hot water heaters.

So it needs to be discerned in each church what their engagement would be, how they would approach it, how they would engage. Often that happens very organically. My friend Rob McClellan is in North Carolina right now. And they ended up cooking in the church because they had gas stoves and gas hot water heaters.

And so they got going and restaurants were like, look, our freezer is about to thaw out. You want this food? And so they just kept cooking. That wasn't a plan. They didn't have a contingency. Oh, if North Carolina gets wiped out by hurricane, like anybody was thinking that, that we'll cook. No, they started into that. And so that's the beauty of the organic food.

And so they got going and restaurants were like, look, our freezer is about to thaw out. You want this food? And so they just kept cooking. That wasn't a plan. They didn't have a contingency. Oh, if North Carolina gets wiped out by hurricane, like anybody was thinking that, that we'll cook. No, they started into that. And so that's the beauty of the organic food.

the informal systems that a small church can dive into. Now for us, there's a, there's much more intentionality. I'm into it. Like I personally have a calling in this area. It's something I am personally really pretty good at. And the church has often at times just let me go and have my fun, you know, and over the years have more and more gotten heavily engaged in it.

the informal systems that a small church can dive into. Now for us, there's a, there's much more intentionality. I'm into it. Like I personally have a calling in this area. It's something I am personally really pretty good at. And the church has often at times just let me go and have my fun, you know, and over the years have more and more gotten heavily engaged in it.

And so like the last hurricane, I did not really have to lead all of our efforts. We had a room in the church, the fellowship hall turned into a food pantry and we had people running that. I was hardly involved in it other than the supervisor talked to them about what they were doing. We had disaster relief work going on that I got up and running.

And so like the last hurricane, I did not really have to lead all of our efforts. We had a room in the church, the fellowship hall turned into a food pantry and we had people running that. I was hardly involved in it other than the supervisor talked to them about what they were doing. We had disaster relief work going on that I got up and running.