Recent devastating tornadoes in Missouri and Alabama propelled trained caregivers from Marketplace Chaplains USA, America’s largest and most experienced employee care service provider, into action to help others during their time of need.

While no Marketplace Chaplains’ client companies or employees were directly harmed in the catastrophic natural disasters, chaplains sought to help others in need as they do every day in America’s workplace, by showing care and concern to workers and their family members.

Missouri corporate chaplain Pamela Martinez, who lives in Billings, Missouri, near Springfield and Joplin called the local tornado command center asking how she could help in the disaster. She was first assigned to a triage center at a local hospital and later accompanied a ‘search and rescue team,’ in the grim task of looking for more survivors in the Joplin-area.

“I really feel my training and service with Marketplace Chaplains has helped me to be better prepared to help those in need, even though they were not employees of one (of our many) client companies,” Martinez said.

Marketplace Chaplains currently serves 2,393 client locations in 43 states and 867 cities, caring for more than 485,000 employees and family members in the U.S. and overseas.

“Pamela shared this information as a representation of the many chaplains who help out every day in offices and factory floors,” said Marketplace Division Director Jerrold  Lake. “This is a really good chaplain who has had great ministry with the people in the area.”

In Tuscumbia, Alabama, Marketplace Chaplain Phil Russell assisted more than 80 people in the tornado victim chaplaincy, including several who had lost friends, family and homes.

“We are certainly grateful, but not surprised that Marketplace Chaplains who help so many each day would pitch in and help those they do not know in the worst of times,” Marketplace Chaplains President and COO Dick De Witt said.