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Grace Baptist Church will host a Disaster Relief Night of Worship Thursday, May 8, at 6 p.m. Doors will open at 5 p.m.

The service will feature special music by Eternal Vision Ministries and Tommy Spencer.

Eternal Vision is celebrating 34 years of ministry. The group travels 50 weeks a year and has appeared on the Grand Ole Opry, the main stage of the National Quartet Convention, the Ark Encounter, as well as annually at Dollywood and on Carnival cruise ships. All members of the quartet profess to know the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal savior and have a passion to share the gospel through singing, testimony and the Word.

Spencer is a soloist from Knoxville and is host of the Knoxville-area TV show Sunday Tradition. He professes to love the Lord.

The night of music will be a night of worship as the church and community honor those impacted by Hurricane Helene and disaster relief workers.

Grace Baptist Church has been actively involved in disaster relief ministry, and since Hurricane Helene in late September, the church has been hosting dozens of volunteers who have helped with hurricane recovery efforts. The church acts as a station for volunteers, who come from both near and far to help with relief efforts. They have hosted as many as 120 volunteers at a time, turning classrooms into living space.

Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief has been stationed at the church since October and continues to help those needing repairs from the hurricane. TBC has completed more than 155 jobs since the first of January. They actually came in October and did recovery, which means they tore the flooded areas out of homes, doing whatever needed to be done.

Some volunteers have come from churches as far away as Texas, Minnesota and Ohio. Some of their work has included doing restoration work in local churches that suffered damage from the hurricane. An Ohio church group put drywall in a church fellowship hall, kitchen and classrooms. In other places, they picked up trash, did painting, installed flooring, performed masonry and installed doors.

They have enabled some homeowners to keep their homes.

Coordinator Kaye Thomas said, “Jesus told us to be his hands and feet, and that’s what we’re doing here on this Earth — just sharing his love in knowing what we can do to share that love that Jesus had for us.”

Persons needing help repairing their home after the floods in Carter, Johnson, Washington, Unicoi and Greene counties can stop by the Disaster Relief Office at Grace Baptist Church Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The concert is free and open to the entire community.