Kentucky church will send help to Florida hurricane survivors

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A small church in Hardin County is working to make an enormous distinction in areas affected by disasters like July’s jap Kentucky flooding and final 12 months’s western Kentucky tornadoes. The church is even crossing state strains to assist others who’re additional away.

Pastor Steve Hill explains he began New Horizon Baptist Fellowship in Glendale together with his spouse 20 years in the past. Whereas they’ve hosted a number of mission journeys over time, Hill says the group has by no means completed as many as they’ve in 2022.

The church, together with Little Clifty Baptist Church in Leitchfield, the place Hill is serving as interim pastor, is presently gathering donations for individuals hit by Hurricane Ian in southwest Florida.            

Hill and several other church members will journey to the Fort Myers space on Oct. 31 and keep within the space for almost per week, offering reduction for Hurricane Ian survivors. They’ll be taking provides and serving to individuals in a big cell house park, amongst different neighborhoods within the space.

“Their roofs are gone,” Hill defined. “If their cell house’s nonetheless standing, they’re simply within the open. You recognize, it’s raining on them, and so we’re taking tarps to the place you’ll be able to cowl that roof till they will have a roof placed on or they will substitute the cell house or one thing may be completed to the place they will get satisfactory lodging.”

The group can be gathering meals, clothes, footwear, cleansing supplies, private hygiene objects, present playing cards and toys for youngsters forward of the journey. Hill’s staff will go together with a number of expertise in catastrophe response. This would be the sixth mission journey responding to a pure catastrophe the group will make this 12 months. The group made a number of journeys, visiting Jap and Western Kentucky and different spots out of state.

Hill says as quickly as disasters occur, he’s often on the telephone coordinating, planning for the following journey.

“Your coronary heart breaks for them, and also you need to do every part you presumably can for them. Simply love on them and encourage them and pray with them and allow them to know that they’re not forgotten,” Hill mentioned.

Hill and the staff at New Horizon Baptist Fellowship have additionally partnered with a number of different church buildings to fundraise, gather donations, and make the supply to Florida in response to Hurricane Ian. Hill and his spouse are additionally coordinating with a development crew that may journey to the realm and assist make repairs to individuals’s houses whereas.

You possibly can drop off donations straight at New Horizon Baptist Fellowship forward of the journey. The church’s handle is 856 W Rhudes Creek Rd. in Glendale. Hill invitations anybody who wish to assist to name him at (270) 723-4301 to coordinate particulars.