If you haven’t read Barry’s blog from this morning and want to know about our region and the efforts to get back on our feet, please do so. This blog will be the place to get the links and information for donations.

Like we said in the podcast and facebook live, we are giving our insights and what we’ve seen in Greene County during Hurricane Helene and the efforts to recover and clean up. Just because we haven’t seen an organization doesn’t mean they aren’t here, we just haven’t seen their boots on the ground. 

We talked most today about the Orebank Volunteer Fire Department. Those men and women are working 24-hours a day right now. They aided Cocke County with swift-water rescues as well as all emergencies during the hurricane and flooding. They continue to work with people to get them to safety as well as bring food and water and restore power as they are able. They are doing all these efforts while taking off work volunteering their time, their vehicles, their farm equipment, heavy equipment and money. They are literally the hands and feet of Jesus to our community. You can write a check and send it to:

Orebank Volunteer Fire Department

55 Orebank Road

Mosheim, TN 37818

And then we also recommend AIDNET https://www.zeffy.com/donation... - when you donate to AIDNET your donations WILL stay in Greene County. AIDNET began operations after the floods in 2001 and then worked with Alison Krauss and Union Station when they did a benefit concert in 2011 after the tornadoes in April of that year. They are great folks and we personally vouch for Jeff Idell who is President of the Board of Directors. 

Other folks we gave a shout-out to include:

Yassin’s Falafel House in Knoxville - https://yassinsfalafelhouse.co...

KATOM - https://www.katom.com/

Tabernacle Mission Soup Kitchen - https://m.facebook.com/groups/...

If you’d like to support these groups, please do so. If you can’t support financially or you have your own group to support that’s local to you or your loved ones, please do that! And if you can’t support financially (we KNOW these are trying times for us ALL) please lift our region up in prayer. Please pray for those who are affected and who have lost loved ones, their homes, their farms, their animals. Also please pray for those giving the care and the assistance - the ER physicians, the police, firemen (and women), the EMTs, the nurses, the allied health care workers, the volunteers. And for the community. It’s going to be a long long road and we need all the prayers, patience, love, grace and mercy.