Dauson Springs, along with so much of Kentucky was destroyed from mind blowing tornado's just a couple weeks from Christmas. As PleasantDales Disaster Response Coordinator, this just broke my heart watching the news reports from the effected areas.
Knowing our denominations disaster response " Brethren Disaster Ministries" doesn't arrive until after the clean up, and stays for months and years to work on rebuilding brought joy knowing I would be involved in that effort.
There's a reason God brought Penny and I together and this is one of them. Penny asked "what are we going to do over Christmas? Are we going to set around with friends and family, or are we going to travel to Kentucky"? So, that Sunday at PleasantDale during Joys and Concerns I announced Penny and I would use Penny's time off from high school teaching to travel to Kentucky. We're going to make up lunch bags and drinks to give out to folks God places in our path and if you feel led to donate Walmart gift cards please drop by our house and leave on our porch like always, if we're not home. We're leaving the day after Christmas, in four days. Over the four days we were given 42 gift cards, and 3,000.00 plus in cash.
On Christmas day we left the family celebration with our 11 nieces and nephews, formed a procession line to make up large lunch bags with a flashlight in each bag. The lunch meat was in coolers with loaves of bread to give out. Cold drinks were in coolers. This 1600.00 worth of lunch bags Penny and I paid for so all the money and gift cards didn't go for the food or gas. We paid for the gas.
Pictures will be put on soon.
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