Would you be ready if a major calamity unsettled your life, your community, maybe even the entire country? There are practical steps you can take to be ready. In fact, there are important measures churches should take to ensure that they are able to serve their communities in times of disaster. Dr. Paul Williams, who has been involved in medical missions in 105 nations over 25 years, is convinced that 85 to 90 percent of people are not prepared even for common disasters. Join us as he provides practical insights on what we can do to equip ourselves for the unexpected.

Rev David MacEachern, former pastor of Bat Cave Baptist Church, describes his experiences of the loss, grief, and yet stories of hope and redemption in the aftermath of hurricane Helene’s catastrophic winds and flooding in Western North Carolina.

Blaise Pascal, the seventeenth century philosopher, mathematician, and physicist, gave us more than the Pascal triangle and new understandings about hydraulics. He left us a wager: “If one bets that God does exist, and He does, you win ‘everything’, to lose — you lose nothing. Should one bet that God does not exist — and win, you win nothing, but to lose? You lose ‘everything.'” Michael Rota, philosophy teacher at the University of St. Thomas, aims to help us make a wise wager.