GREENSBORO, N.C. — Since last week tons of resources have left a warehouse in Greensboro to go to the mountains.
For more than a week, Steve Reavis has been deploying people and resources from the Greensboro Baptists on Misson warehouse to western North Carolina.
"The first thing we sent out of here is about 15,000 shelf stable meals that we keep at the warehouse that we took to Boone, Asheville and to Marion where we have kitchens sent up," Reavis said. "Since then we’ve sent supplies for volunteers to use to help clean out peoples homes."
The warehouse is nearly empty after sending out 30 trailers of supplies and tons of food.
"We’ve sent most of all that out," Reavis said. "We’re waiting to be resupplied."
The Christian nonprofit has 11 sites set up working on recovery and feeding families in the mountains.
"We’re more stable in week two than we were in week one," Reavis shared. "Today we’re getting water tankers ready to go out. We have two here we’re working on right now."
Baptists on Misson went from a team of 500 volunteers last week to 1,200.
Beverly Eckard is one of them.
This week she's in Arden at Biltmore Church putting together meals.
"We have two kitchens here for mass feeding. We’ve done 12,000 meals today," Eckard said. "Those are taken out by the Salvation Army and American Red Cross."
Eckard said one woman she spoken with was traumatized by Helen's impact.
"she said now when it rains it's almost like a nightmare," Eckard said.
Eckard said she hopes her prayer and presence shows folk in the mountains there’s still hope.
"My heart breaks for the people," Eckard said.
Baptists on Mission said their support for Western North Carolina will continue for years.
After meeting people's immediate needs they plan to help folks rebuild their homes.