These are images from the flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where floodwaters inundated 1,300 city blocks and displaced more than 26,000 people.
Three Texas Baptist Men response units were dispatched to the Midwest by the Southern Baptist Convention North American Mission Board. The units work side-by-side with Red Cross volunteers to provide lunch and dinner daily to displaced flood victims.
More photos are online at the texasbaptists blog's photostream .
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TBM and the Red Cross worked together to distribute food and drink. (Photos by Kaitlin Chapman/BGCT)
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Residents receive aid while they begin a massive mud-out and cleanup effort after devastating floods.
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Residents gather outisde their homes, ruined by flood waters.
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TBM volunteers prepare meals.
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Not all flood waters have receded.
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