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Dear Friends,
Your help is needed! The Kyelton-Lewisburg
Inter-faith Disaster Relief Board has set aside the
first week of June. June 1-8 as a week of community Help for the Kyelton-Lewisburg Community. Our goal for that week is try and complete the work that still needs to be done in that community. There are only five homes remaining that need repair work, and one house that needs to be completely rebuilt. We need electrians, heating and air engineers, plumbers, and anyone that is willing to volunteer to help where they are needed. Youth Groups would really be appricated during this week. I would ask you all to really pray and seek God's Guidance in how you might could help.
Please pass this on to everyone that you think would be willing to help. As Christians we should all
remember that we are to be witnesses of Jesus. If you can't help please keep this effort in your prayers.
Give your life to God, and God will give you back your life!
“He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that
loseth his life for my sake shall find it.” Matthew
10:39.
Your Brother In Christ,
Gary Linville
DeSoto County Fire Chaplain
Vice President of the
DeSoto Fellowship of Christian Firefighters
email dcff222@yahoo.com / pager # 901-769-2540
Home # 662-895-6210
web-site http://dcfcff.tripod.comArticle From The DeSoto Appeal:
Churches, civic groups join to aid Lewisburg
By Jennifer Biggs
biggs@desotoappeal.com
Local churches and civic groups have created an
interfaith alliance to help rebuild the Lewisburg
community, heavily damaged in a November storm. Five churches joined with the Northwest Baptist Association and the civic groups Habitat for Humanity and the DeSoto County Fellowship of Christian Firefighters to form the Lewisburg-Kyleton Interfaith Disaster Relief.
"We're going to determine what needs there are to be met and what to do with the money that's been
collected," said Gary Linville, who has been named
vice-chairman of the interfaith group. High winds - which some local officials say was a tornado - plowed through DeSoto County early in the morning Nov. 24. The storm destroyed 19 homes and
damaged about 120 more, the vast majority in
Lewisburg. In December, the area was declared eligible for federal disaster relief. Religious and civic leaders met early this month to discuss an interfaith group. Some pulled for a group specifically to assist Lewisburg, while Linville wanted to start a permanent alliance. But this is a start, he said. "We'll get some training in this and then we might be able to go on to something else," he said.
May 2002
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