Trip to Harveyville! First day
Today (Mar 2nd) I left early with Chuck and Elvie (awesome couple), to Harveyville where the tornado ripped through and devastated the town, to serve and see what we could do to help. Once again another humbling experience for sure! There were so many homes destroyed, damaged, and families that were forced out of there homes, It will take a long time to re-build the town, but I know they will! There were too many volunteers to count, a very cool sight to see the hearts of every one so eager to help and serve any way they could. We spent the day digging through apartments with no more exterior walls and no roof on them, separating debris, weeds, sticks, and personal belongings. One elderly lady we met today had an incredible story of what happened to her. While the walls and roof was coming off around her, she was sitting in the dark on her bed. Now if you think about it God was totally with her, these were brick walls and an entire roof totally gone, and she was just sitting there! How amazing! Then after all of that she went to the rescue of her neighbors including her brother in one apartment on one side of her and a single mom with her two babies (which were knocked out) on the other side. (The babies are ok!) After spending some time with her listening to her story and praying with her she felt very blessed to have her life, and didn’t care so much about the material things. Please pray for the people and the community of Harveyville. We will be going back tomorrow with hopefully more people. We plan to worship God through the acts of our services.
With love Pastor Joey Orebaugh
P.S. I will be posting some pictures that have been taken of the area in the next few days. God bless you!
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