I don't know how many shelters are helping people make decisions about what they are going to do, |
I've had experience dealing with the aftermath of hurricanes, |
It's been amazing to see how people rise to the occasion. We've had so many offers of assistance that it has just been incredible. |
It's really exhilarating to be connected with so many people, ... I have the opportunity of planting a seed in the life of young children and teenagers that will bear fruit that I might not ever see. |
My folks didn't want me to go so far away, |
My work at those adult retreats has given me some experience to sense when things are not right, |
This is a place to make decisions and a place for people to decide what they are going to do, ... We are doing an injustice to people if we don't make them confront decisions. |
We ought to embrace the people who got in a vehicle and somehow arrived in our community, ... [Let's] let them know that Searcy is different than St. Bernard's Parish. |