Samaritan’s Purse is responding to help families and homeowners in the High Country of North Carolina and Tennessee devastated by unprecedented damage and flooding from Hurricane Helene. From Alliance Bible Fellowship in Boone, Samaritan’s Purse is assisting homeowners with mudding out homes, clearing downed trees, tarping roofs, and removing debris.
Source: www.samaritanspurse.org
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The East Coast of the United States just got decimated by Hurricane Helene, and normally, up here in the mountains of North Carolina, we don’t feel the effect.
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A lot of damaged homes, people have lost their lives here in this community in the High Country.
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Our community is set up for blizzards, we’re not set up well for floods and so it’s really catastrophic damages.
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The road that we’re on here, it’s bridge is out on the other end and our slide has got
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it blocked on this end.
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Those people, none of them can get out.
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There’s probably, I would say, at least 50 homes or more in there.
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If you can help somebody, help.
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Just bless them.
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Samaritan’s Purse is responding.
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We’re sending equipment up here, and volunteers will be going out this Monday starting to help in this community.
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But this is not the only place we’ve responded to.
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Banner Elk, they’re out of water, they’re out of food.
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So we just delivered one load of water to them.
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The next couple days, we’re going to be moving more water, more food, baby formula.
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We are outside Watauga Hospital to offer a oxygen service to those that have lost access to oxygen at their homes.
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The medical system here and also in nearby Avery County at our Linville Hospital, they’ve asked for help.
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And so as we deploy our teams to help recover from these floods and help dig out homes and cut trees back,
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we’re also helping medically.
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I’m just really grateful for
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the partnership with Samaritan’s Purse, to have a little hope in our community about 12 hours after what could have been probably the most devastating thing that we’ve probably seen in our lifetime.
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Nobody wants to live through a
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disaster like this, but one of the interesting things is disaster brings us together in a powerful way.
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So would you please pray for those Gospel opportunities, bringing people together in the Name of Jesus to serve and to
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help and bring the Gospel?
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And that’s why our volunteers go out.
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They want to serve and love others, but they want to serve in the Name of Jesus Christ.
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So if you want to get involved, go to samaritanspurse.org and sign up.
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