Hurricane Helene Relief Update
Dear Church of Our Saviour family,
Thanks so much for your very generous support of our family’s trip down to Western North Carolina a couple of weeks ago, along with Ralph Davis, to aid in Hurricane Helene relief efforts. Thanks to your generosity and many others, we were able to bring more than $25,000 worth of supplies to church groups organizing relief effort in Asheville and hard-hit mountain communities north of the city. Most we brought to a distribution center being run by the Asheville Dream Center, a multi-church ministry in Asheville, where we spent Monday October 7th helping unload, reload, and redistribute everything from generators to canned goods. On October 8th, we joined a group headed to the hard-hit Toe River Valley, with a small delivery of supplies but more importantly, shovels and work gloves, and helped dig a thick layer of mud out of the first floor of Green Mountain Presbyterian Church. The church was located 24 feet above the water but still flooded 8 feet deep. The group we worked with was doing a lot of work helping the Whitson family, who ran a general store next to the church, rebuild, and we donated the $5,600 remaining from our fundraiser to their efforts. We were so encouraged by the courage, love, and perseverance of the Christians in the area working so hard to bless their neighbors amidst a great tragedy.
Blessings,
Brad Littlejohn
