Royal Ambassadors participate in hurricane relief efforts for victims of hurricane Floyd in North Carolina. September 1999, Hurricane Floyd threatened the US East Coast. It was a category 4 hurricane, twice as large as hurricane Andrew which devastated Florida a few years ago. Although the hurricane weakened before it made landfall, North Carolina experienced severe flooding due to heavy rains. Southside Baptist Church was one of many in the Savannah area which provided canned goods, paper goods, cleaning supplies and bottled water for the victims of the flooding. During a Wednesday night chapter meeting, Royal Ambassadors unloaded a trailer full of donated items, sorted and packed the items, then reloaded the trailer. Many of the boxes were stencilled with the Lad motto: LEARNING AND DOING IN JESUS' NAME, and with the Crusader motto: HELPING OTHERS IN JESUS' NAME. The next day, the donated items were loaded into a tractor-trailer bound for North Carolina.

RA Lads form a "bucket brigade" of relief supplies

Jim Graham and Jim Ivey supervise unloading of the trailer

Taylor Ivey, Homey Hazzard, Patrick Cooper, Powell Branson, Don Tomberlin, Jr., and John Ashley proudly display the results of this RA mission activity.

Southside members and other area churches donated many boxes and bags of canned food, diapers, paper goods and cleaning supplies for the effort.

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