“Within 10-15 minutes, the water level rose from 4 inches to 4 feet,” said Pastor Matt Verstraeten as he watched floodwaters rise in the basement of Benton UMC in Lewisburg District in August.
After assessing the damage, church members quickly went to work. And not just in the church, but the whole town.
“For as many people as we had working at the church ... we had that many people, if not more, going door-to-door, house-to-house, seeing what they could do, seeing what the needs were. We had people making food, people delivering flood buckets.”
You can watch a video about flood recovery efforts in Benton on YouTube at tinyurl.com/yd99kmld. A full article will be featured in the November LINK.
A number of churches in the Susquehanna Conference have been affected by the recent flooding. Please give generously to Susquehanna Flood Relief. Make checks payable to Susquehanna Conference (note Flood Relief #8055 in memo) and mail to 303 Mulberry Drive, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050. Or consider donating UMCOR Cleaning Kits to Mission Central. See missioncentral.org/current-needs/
