Healing Projects

WHAT A WEEK!!! 🙌🎉. This team knocked themselves OUT taking on any and every project thrown at them! They seriously blew us away 😭🙏 We are SO grateful for ALL of you who sponsored this week’s work in so many ways:

Healing Projects
MERGE
Healing Covenant Church
Mayfield Graves County LTRG
Camp Graves
Stephanie Wade Balmer
Ashley Buxton
Mary Beth Drennan
Casey’s General Stores in Dawson Springs and Mayfield

As 2023 draws to a close, We humbly ask that you consider supporting the work of Healing Projects as we serve neighbors in need locally and globally. We continue to serve in the ongoing rebuilding efforts of the communities devastated by the December tornadoes of 2021.

Our most exciting project coming up in 2024 is the rebuilding of a playground for the community of Dawson Springs, KY, which was lost to the massive tornado that ripped through homes and lives. We are so humbled and honored to announce the funds were fully raised by Healing Projects with a matching grant from Little Tykes, as well as help from our friends at Bluegrass Recreation Sales and Installation to complete this project! The equipment was ordered this year and has arrived and will be installed this spring!! 🌼🌱

Please consider supporting us as we work to serve in areas ravaged by disaster, poverty, and crisis. We are SO grateful for your trust in us, your constant support, and for your desire to love your neighbor in tangible ways.

May God bless your 2024! 🎊🎊🎊
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🌱To donate to ongoing disaster relief efforts online:

https://give.ministrylinq.com/App/Form/b0200767-76e7-4a36-8a42-48707ea6fd15?fbclid=IwAR0ONLkHS6w05Vl33Avdz-e-1TMhiFTXWaAwhWKJrKZfuwm5bezGzZcFmNE

🌱To read more about the work of Healing Projects:

https://www.healingprojects.org/

On the eve of the 2nd anniversary of the devastating tornadoes that tore through Kentucky and Tennessee, another December tornado outbreak has upended lives in our region. The South is a generous community that cares about neighbor so I know many of you are going to want to jump in to help. If you do so, please remember these important tips for helping in a disaster area:

1. DO NOT enter into direct disaster zones without permission while rescue workers and utility workers are trying to find survivors, help victims, and restore power. Please let these frontline workers have clear access.

2. Please do not drive through disaster areas just to get photos and see the damage in these early days. It makes the job of frontline workers very difficult.

3. Coordinate your efforts with a local partner (church, nonprofit organization, local resident). They will know the current needs and help you target the most needed items.

4. Please do not do “closet dumps”. Disaster areas often face a common secondary crisis of where to store and how to get rid of large loads of unneeded items. There is often more diapers, toys, and clothes donated than actually needed and communities are left trying to figure out what to do with the excess. This does not mean they don’t need these items! But please work with local leaders to know the needs and do not bring large loads of items that have not been requested.

5. Please don’t post social media photos especially of children without permission.

6. Some of the most commonly needed items in these early days are: tarps, batteries, flashlights, OTC meds like Tylenol, easy to eat snacks, small toiletries, new underwear and socks, gift cards to Walmart/Target/Food/Gas.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and survivors. May we never become cold or calloused to the pain suffered by those in the wake of disasters such as these. It is life-altering for those in its path. May God be with you ❤️

Severe storms tear through central Tennessee, leaving 6 dead and nearly 2 dozen injured Severe storms killed six people and sent about two dozen to the hospital as homes and businesses were severely damaged in multiple cities through central Tennessee.

One year ago today…a series of storms and tornadoes stuck our region like nothing we have ever seen before. When I first saw the damage in person, I could barely drive not only from the debris and disorienting loss of signs and expected landmarks, but from the grief that was overwhelming me. Knowing these communities personally, my heart was so heavy imagining their pain and the challenges they faced to rebuild their lives and communities.

Today, we remember. The lives lost, the homes destroyed, the businesses and churches leveled, the communities that faced a collective tragedy that at times seemed too hard to carry.

But we also remember how all of YOU showed up. Donations came in, volunteers flooded our streets, hot food was given, Christmas toys poured in, and neighbors from both near and far cleared away debris, cried with the survivors, planted flowers, sorted massive piles of clothes and medicines, and so much more.

THANK YOU will never be enough for what all of you did. Healing Projects played just a small part in a MASSIVE outpouring of love and support for our hard-hit communities. My friends, loved ones, and our volunteers gave SO MUCH of themselves, I just literally can barely type through my tears of gratitude remembering what all of you have done. ❤️❤️❤️

You truly showed love for your neighbor. You remembered rhe “least of these”. You put others before yourself. There are FAR TOO MANY of you to tag everyone who has helped in the recovery. But I will tag some of you who went WAY above and beyond. We are eternally grateful to you all.

We have a VERY SPECIAL project to announce soon in the ongoing recovery, but for today, we simply want to honor and remember what was lost, what was found, what was broken, what has been rebuilt, what was devastated, and what is slowly healing.
Our prayers and love are still with you. ❤️

Roger B. Choate
Maggie Choate
Hannah Choate
Jordan Choate
Tony N Vicki Borden
Susan Byassee Jett
Casey R O'Nan
Caleb Skinner
April Skinner
Candace Amyx
Gene Cook
Marlin Greer
Karen Greer
Garth McGrath
Sue Garter Ormond
Kristen Ratigan Kalski
Faith Covenant Church
A Simple Faith Church
Ronnie McBrayer
Jeremy Wallace
Kendra Housman Wallace
Derek Somerville
Mary Beth Drennan
Tiffany Jones
Summer Bostrom
Karla Minter
ATC Trailers
Steve Brenneman
Amina Dorine
Krystal Denfip
Lisa Tolley Holland