As a teenager I went up with a local church to Kentucky coal mining area. Little did I know God was letting me know this is where he would want me later in life.
After returning home from the Navy I went to Kentucky again with a group from a local church to build a church steeple that a man could the church’s money and didn’t return to finish the work. As I was up on the roof of that church help building that steeple God put on my heart to make that church a sign. A couple months passed, my dad and myself went and installed the sign on that church in Kenvir, Kentucky.
Years passed and I was on a mission trip in Jamaica with a lot of preachers from the mountains in North Carolina when God put Kentucky on my heart. I asked one of my preacher friends did he know someone that I could help there in Kentucky. God always had Kentucky on my heart every since I was a teenager. The preacher gave me some names and numbers and I made a phone call and told them what God has put on my heart to do. I reached out to Joe Cruisers in Spartanburg South Carolina and ask Joe could I rent a shell for the weekend to take donations of clothes food and toys to the Coal Miner’s children around Christmas time. He told me that I could borrow the camper shell and the trailer if needed. For six and a half years I took toys twice a year before Christmas and after Christmas to help those in need in Appalachia region of Kentucky. Someone stole Joe’s trailer and I felt like God was burning me to buy one. I purchased a trailer and I’ve been going to Kentucky once a month delivering donations of clothes food and toys to help those in need in Appalachia region of Kentucky.
As I start the new year in 2020 I can look back and see all that God has done and people that he has sent to me whether by acquaintance or one time meeting. Either way it sure has been a blessing and sometimes when I’m on the road people would come up to me and be a blessing to me or give me donations. Sometimes I think as an angel that God has sent to me
to encourage me to keep on going.
