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" OUR MISSION TO THE GULF "
WHEH APOSTLE HEARD OF THE TRAGEDY IN LOUISIANNA, WE STARTED TO PLAN ON HOW WE COULD HELP. OUR COMPANY BASED IN SALISBURY DECIDED TO CLOSE ITS DOORS FOR A FEW DAYS SO WE COULD EXTEND OUR HELP TO CLEAN UP WHAT WAS LEFT AFTER KATRINA. WHAT WE SAW WHEN WE ARRIVED WAS NOT WHAT WE EXPECTED...... IT WAS WORSE. THOSE PEOPLE HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LEFT, SO IN A GREAT SENSE OF RELIEF WE HAD FILLED 2 TRUCKS AND A TRAILER WITH DONATIONS WE COLLECTED BEFORE GOING DOWN. WHEN WE ARRIVED WE UNLOADED ALL THE DONATIONS AND HEADED OUT TO SEE WHO WE COULD HELP. WE CAME ACROSS A FEW PEOPLE IN THEIR YARDS... WE'LL WHAT WAS LEFT OF THEM, AND STARTED WHERE EVER WE COULD TO CLEAN UP ALOT OF THE RUBBISH, ALL IN HOPES THAT WE WOULD FIND SOME OF THESE FAMALIES THINGS THAT WE COULD TRY AND SALVAGE. AS THE DAY GREW ON SO DID OUR EFFORTS. BY NIGHT FALL WE WERE STILL WORKING, BUT IT NEVER SEEMED TO BE ENOUGH. AS WE WENT BACK TO OUR CAMPOUT SPOT WE REALIZED WE HAD NO WHERE TO SLEEP. SO WE ALL PILED UP IN THE TRUCKS AND MADE THE BEST OF IT BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT THE RESIDENTS OF LOUISIANNA HAD IT MUCH WORSE THAN WE DID........ AFTER A FEW DAYS OF DEMO, CLEAN UP, AND SOME LIGHT REBUILDING WE KNEW WE HAD TO GET BACK TO OUR FAMILIES, BUT STILL IN OUR MINDS AND OUR HEARTS THE SYMPATHY FOR THOSE PEOPLE WAS OVERWHELMING. WE THINK OF OUR CHILDREN OUR WIVES, HUSBANDS, MOTHERS AND FATHERS AND JUST CONTINUE TO THANK GOD EVERYDAY NO MATTER HOW FORTUNATE WE GET, BECAUSE IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE IT CAN ALL BE LOST!!!! "OUR PRAYERS AND THOUGHTS ARE STILL WITH YOU LOUISIANNA"
GOD BLESS!!!!!!!!!!
  
  
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