George, my heart broke when I saw the devastation from the I-40 washout to Swannanoa! I’d travelled that section for several years going to Ridgecrest for Collegiate Student Week from 1976 to 1982!
FBC Swannanoa is doing a lot to house and deeply relief workers who are coming into the area. I have sent them money, talked with their pastor, and may have worked out a long-term partnership for them with some Baptist churches out of the Venture Church Network (formerly Conservative Baptist Convention).
Yes! Ridgecrest has been housing relief workers. We drove through the southwest suburbs of Asheville lasgt week on our way to "Dollywood" in TN by the route which existed before Interstater 40 was built. I-40 into TN was closed for a dozen or more miles and thus not passavblke for months and months.
Thank you for sharing your ministry shaping experience in Swannanoa and for reminding us to always being aware of our limitations. In this season of loss and limitation, we pray with you for those who have been so deeply affected. May the hope and strength found in Jesus Christ out-ride the storm.
Thank you, Sam, for you comment. Our area just south of Greenville, SC did not have much difficulty. We lost power for 36 hours, and Internet for six days. No trees down around us. The western NC and eastern TN area, however, was hard hit. The recovery and rebuild in those areas will be at least three years.
George, my heart broke when I saw the devastation from the I-40 washout to Swannanoa! I’d travelled that section for several years going to Ridgecrest for Collegiate Student Week from 1976 to 1982!
FBC Swannanoa is doing a lot to house and deeply relief workers who are coming into the area. I have sent them money, talked with their pastor, and may have worked out a long-term partnership for them with some Baptist churches out of the Venture Church Network (formerly Conservative Baptist Convention).
Yes! Ridgecrest has been housing relief workers. We drove through the southwest suburbs of Asheville lasgt week on our way to "Dollywood" in TN by the route which existed before Interstater 40 was built. I-40 into TN was closed for a dozen or more miles and thus not passavblke for months and months.
Thank you for sharing your ministry shaping experience in Swannanoa and for reminding us to always being aware of our limitations. In this season of loss and limitation, we pray with you for those who have been so deeply affected. May the hope and strength found in Jesus Christ out-ride the storm.
Thank you, Sam, for you comment. Our area just south of Greenville, SC did not have much difficulty. We lost power for 36 hours, and Internet for six days. No trees down around us. The western NC and eastern TN area, however, was hard hit. The recovery and rebuild in those areas will be at least three years.