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Tornadoes Sweep Across Kansas, Missouri, Alabama and 5 other states. Your HELP IS NEEDED! Joplin, Missouri and Alabama “Super Cell” Tornado Relief
The Fellowship of Christian Farmers will be setting up a base camp in rural Joplin, Missouri to begin the long recovery campaign from an EW-4 tornado that hit this southwest Missouri city of 50,000 people on Sunday, May 22nd. First responders are at work in the search and rescue stage of the disaster relief. Farmers who know how to run loaders and chain saws will be needed in the rural areas surrounding Joplin. Fencing repairs on pasture land will be needed immediately. Farmers across the Midwest are busy with spring planting, but they know what it is like to suffer a disaster. “There is no such thing as a well timed disaster.” Says Ron Schernikau, Beaver Crossing, Nebraska. “We are busy but we can get down to Joplin to help some folks for a few days.”
The Fellowship of Christian Farmers, International has its shower trailer and cots at the Sommerville Baptist Church in Sommerville, Alabama to begin helping farm families in Morgan County rebuild following the April 27th tornadoes. Sommerville is located southeast of Decatur, Alabama. Pasture fencelines need to be restored and downed trees need to be cut up.
Two diagonal lines of “Super Cells” ran across the upper half of Alabama. One super cell line ran from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham in a path of destruction a half mile wide and 80 miles long. The second super cell ran parallel just to the north that ran through Huntsville. This super cell was a half mile wide and 120 miles long. Sommerville is in the center of this line of destruction.
These storms hit at a time of the year when most farmers are busy planting. The Fellowship of Christian Farmers invites retired farmers, church groups, and FFA Chapters to consider traveling to the Fellowship’s base camp in Sommerville, Alabama to put love into action helping our Alabama neighbors .
Contact the FCFI Home Office to register your team to be part of the “Joplin, Missouri and Alabama Super Cell Tornado Relief” campaign.
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e-mail: fellowship @fcfi.org phone: 309-365-8710 |