Working For The Lord

Hundreds of Southern Baptist volunteers have spent weeks helping residents of Buffalo, New York, clear trees and limbs that were snapped by last month's two-foot snowfall. The group's leader says they will leave town by this weekend after answering more than 700 calls for help, handing out hundreds of Bibles and eliciting 15 "professions of faith." They slept in churches, showered in trailers and gathered at sunup each day before heading out with chainsaws, Bibles and sack lunches. The Baptist volunteers, who pay their own way, respond to disasters around the country. One volunteer admits that many people expect Southern Baptists to be wild-eyed fundamentalists. He says, "We may be fundamentalists but we're not wild-eyed."