“If you feel the need to do something and you just can’t let it go, you should do it,” said Our Lady of the Snows (Mary’s Home) parishioner Aaron Kempker after making a massive delivery to a hurricane-ravaged area of Tennessee last month.
“I also recommend having a good group of friends to help you,” he said. “It might grow into something you weren’t expecting … like it did with me.” Mr. Kempker and a group of friends recently delivered three large trailers of bottled water, nonperishable food, disposable diapers, and other emergency necessities to Erwin, Tennessee, which was recently swamped with record rainfall from Hurricane Helene.
After seeing videos of the flooding, Mr. Kempker felt compelled to do something to help. Soon, the community joined in and they “wound up with a little over $14,000 in donations in less than a week,” Mr. Kempker noted.
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