- Well, since I've been doing disaster relief since 2005
I've deployed 82 times, doing different things
and it's my ministry, it's it's my heart, it's what I do.
One of the more recent ones, Mayfield, Kentucky
when they had the tornado up there last December,
they had cars lined up coming
into the feed line to get food.
So I saw this car that had this,
the windshield was shattered, cracked, sunk in
and I said that car looks like it's been through the storm.
So as I walked around to the driver's side
the front door and the back door window
the glass was concave shattered, just barely hanging in.
And there was three little boys sitting
in the back seat and notice one was about six.
They had a total blank stare, just total blank.
I mean, you don't see kids the week before Christmas
looking like that.
So I asked the mom, I said, were you in the storm?
She said, yes, we lost everything.
She said, this car is all we have.
So the kids were, they were kind of, you know
just staring into nothing.
So I kind of mouthed to her.
What about Christmas?
And she said, we had it and it's gone.
So I gave her some gift cards.
I said, use these for the kids.
I'm sorry.
I said, use these for the kids.
And she grabbed her husband's arm and said
I told you God would send somebody.
(voice cracking)
So I still can't tell it.
She said, I told you God would send somebody
that there is a God and he does care.
And he would send somebody and he did.
(gentle music)
That's what our teams do.
That's what they do is try to give people hope.
I am so thankful that people contributing
to the Myers Mallory State Missions Offering
that allows us to have the resources
for the skid steers, and for the shower trailers,
and for the kitchen, and for the vehicles to pull those.
Because without people giving
to the Myers Mallory Mission Offering, we would not
we would not be able to go out and do the jobs that we do.