Nine-and-a-half hours in a 15-passenger church van with eight other missioners on a hot September Sunday took us through the south half of Arkansas into Louisiana, thence to the southern town of Baldwin,which was close to Morgan City, New Iberia, Patterson, and Franklin.
Our point of departure was Salem United Methodist Church north of Benton, AR, and our destination was the Sager Brown campus of UMCOR, a United Methodist Committee on Relief depot. Here, volunteers sort through hundreds of health and school kits that had been put together in churches all over the nation and shipped to the warehouse. Flood or cleaning buckets also needed packing--all of these for use in any disaster anywhere in the world where they were asked for.
In future posts, I will be more specific about the week's experience. Till then....
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