Samaritan’s Purse said it is sending volunteers to assist with recovery efforts in Missouri and Oklahoma after powerful storms fueled by heavy winds ripped through the two states and other parts of the Midwestern and Southern United States last week.
The group reported that Disaster Relief Unit # 1, identified as “a tractor-trailer filled with relief supplies and equipment,” is headed to Missouri.
Volunteers are headed to Poplar Bluff, Missouri, where hundreds of homes were destroyed by “powerful twisters” in the city and to Stillwater, Oklahoma where wildfires “destroyed tens of thousands of acres and nearly 100 homes and structures.”
Convoy of Hope said it is also launching aid efforts Poplar Bluff in addition to West Plains, Missouri, and Cave City, Arkansas — both communities were hit hard by EF-3 tornadoes.
In a statement Sunday, Convoy of Hope indicated that trucks filled with relief supplies were continually leaving Convoy of Hope‘s World Distribution Center. As of last Wednesday evening, power outages affected 55,000 in Nebraska, 5,000 in Kansas, nearly 2,000 in Texas, 12,000 in Missouri, 11,000 in Arkansas and more than 12,000 in Iowa.