• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Virginia Baptist Disaster Response

Providing support to survivors after disaster.

  • Volunteer
  • Our Mission
  • Stories & Impact
  • Flood Buckets
  • Give

Volunteer Policy

loading...

Individuals seeking to serve in the wake of disaster in the way Jesus Christ would, by feeding, clothing, and serving, are invited to participate in Virginia Baptist Disaster Response. Those who respond will be trained in disciplines according to each person’s individual choice, gifts, and skill set.

Upon completion of training and approval by the Virginia Baptist Disaster Response coordinator, the volunteer will be certified, credentialed and issued an approved identification badge. Virginia Baptist Disaster Response may also provide training for and with other organizations that may or may not have a religious affiliation. Credentialing of these individuals or groups will be at the discretion of the Virginia Baptist Disaster Response Coordinator.

New credentials are issued for a three-year period ending three years from the end of the month in which the new volunteer is trained. At the end of the three-year period, a person must meet at least one of the following criteria during the valid period of their credentials:

  • Respond affirmatively to a disaster callout and serve on the field
  • Attend additional orientation/training sessions
  • Participate in an approved disaster response field exercise

If one or more of these criteria are not met during a person’s valid credentialed period, then that person will be placed in an “inactive” status and can only be removed from that status by attending a VBDR-sponsored training session. A person with an inactive status may not be called upon to serve until properly credentialed.

The Virginia Baptist Disaster Response coordinator (or his/her designee) has the authority to:

  • Revoke a person’s credentials for behavior deemed inappropriate to Virginia Baptist Disaster Response
  • Grant temporary credentials to individuals who can perform certain tasks that are in demand during any particular disaster

Primary Sidebar

My Cart

Volunteer Resources

  • Volunteer Opportunities
  • Training Calendar
  • Spontaneous Volunteers
  • DR Gear

Training Calendar

  • View Full Training Calendar

Our Stories

Hurricane Harvey Liberty Texas Virginia Baptist Volunteers Serve

Through the Storms of Life, Virginia Baptists Respond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHhqIJTtrnU?rel=0&showinfo=0 After Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida, our feeding team left …

Continue Reading

More Stories

  • From Tornado to Hope
  • Generosity Makes Disaster Response Efforts Successful
  • Two Storms, One Family
  • Hearing Their Stories

Contact Us

Recent Volunteer Requests

  • Driver

    • Anywhere
    • VBDR
    • Volunteer
  • Operations Center Volunteer

    • Richmond, Virginia
    • VBDR
    • Volunteer

Footer

Hurricane Harvey Liberty Texas Virginia Baptist Volunteers Serve

Through the Storms of Life, Virginia Baptists Respond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHhqIJTtrnU?rel=0&showinfo=0 After Hurricane Irma made …

Continue Reading

Volunteer Opportunities

  • Volunteer Opportunities
  • Training Calendar
  • Spontaneous Volunteers
  • DR Gear

Disaster Response Hotline
804-545-1212

Contact Us

Virginia Baptist Disaster Response
2828 Emerywood Parkway
Henrico, Virginia 23294

Virginia Baptist Disaster Response is supported by the BGAV© 2019 · BGAV · All Rights Reserved