Dolly Parton announced that she is donating $1 million to the relief efforts, from the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, to “Her Tennessee.” Her businesses are also making an additional $1 million contribution.
Sarah Taylor reported that 2,000 people had been located at a church in Candler, North Carolina. They hadn’t eaten in 6 days. Will Adkins made several helicopter trips to deliver food and supplies.
Walmart has donated $10 million for the Hurricane Helene victims. They also have workers from 3,858 stores filling trucks to deliver needed supplies.
Texans on Missions, formerly Texas Baptist Men, left Monday morning, to take supplies and teams to help with cleanup work from heavy flooding in Northeastern Tennessee and North Carolina.
Carolyn Scruggs is from Brevard, North Carolina. The people at Tractor Supply have loaded a 24’ stock trailer with food for livestock and pets, work gloves, tarps, batteries, shovels, brooms, and other equipment. They stopped at the Food Lion, in Cleveland, North Carolina, to add food and additional supplies that people brought to donate. The mule team was able to load and take food and supplies to the people in Black Mountain. They were able to check on several of the people who were trapped in the area around Swannanoa. Scruggs stated, “The devastation in the mountains has broken all of our hearts, but we are thankful that even in this sadness, we see God working through so many wonderful people. We will continue to praise HIM.”
Keri Selph, of Selph Farms, has set up distribution points for farmers who are donating hay to the farmers in North Carolina who are the most in need. People are donating money, to help with the cost of fuel, so the hay is free to the farmers. There are also farmers in North Florida and South Georgia willing to give and deliver hay.
Thursday morning, Paul Lambert and Jason Hall, from Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, headed to Boone, North Carolina, to help with disaster response. They are pulling a UHAUL full of supplies, that church members gave, to meet the requests of churches in the area.
Alabama has opened 21 state parks for people who are evacuating from Hurricane Milton.
The owners of King’s Arrow Ranch, in Lumberton, Mississippi, have opened their ranch for people who need to evacuate from Hurricane Milton. They are also generously offering their pastures and stables for animals, livestock, and horses. The place can sleep 300 and has 80 RV sites available. King’s Arrow Ranch owners are offering all of the accommodations for free.
May we too seize opportunities to be difference makers for God’s glory and the good of others.
In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
Matthew 5:16
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