Post by Okwes on Mar 27, 2007 14:38:45 GMT -5
Valdese Man Needs Assistance
By MATT COLLINS MCOLLINS@MORGANTON.COM
Morganton - Missionaries are trying to find help to get
trailers full of donated goods to Native American tribes in dire need of
assistance.
Native American Evangelism is a South Dakota-based group that provides
food, medicine, clothing and other supplies to American Indians in South
Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana.
Ed Prewit of Valdese, a representative of the group, pleaded with people
last week to do all they can to help. Prewit called a meeting of local
religious leaders to issue his plea.
He says he has five trailers full of supplies waiting for delivery.
"Those people (at American Indian reservations) are crying for the word
of God," he says. "They're going to bed naked tonight. Keep that in mind
as you eat your meal that people are going to bed tonight hungry."
Prewit has collected food, clothing, medical supplies, furniture,
blankets and linens.
"Anything that's in your house, I need to get out there," Prewit says .
Help from individuals and corporations is necessary to get the goods to
reservations.
Prewit says his diesel truck gets eight or nine miles per gallon. That
adds up to $1,300 to $1,500 in gasoline per trip.
Native American Evangelism Leader Sonny Grigg says American Indians in
the northwest live in conditions comparable to those of Hurricane
Katrina victims. "(The American Indians) just don't complain as much.
They don't want anything to do with anybody, but it has got so bad that
they asked for help," he says.
The utilities are frequently turned off, people sleep in cars, children
live in poverty with no future and alcoholism is rampant on the
reservations, Grigg says.
"We are going to get these kids up and going. We can make a difference
because this has never been done before," he says.
By MATT COLLINS MCOLLINS@MORGANTON.COM
Morganton - Missionaries are trying to find help to get
trailers full of donated goods to Native American tribes in dire need of
assistance.
Native American Evangelism is a South Dakota-based group that provides
food, medicine, clothing and other supplies to American Indians in South
Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana.
Ed Prewit of Valdese, a representative of the group, pleaded with people
last week to do all they can to help. Prewit called a meeting of local
religious leaders to issue his plea.
He says he has five trailers full of supplies waiting for delivery.
"Those people (at American Indian reservations) are crying for the word
of God," he says. "They're going to bed naked tonight. Keep that in mind
as you eat your meal that people are going to bed tonight hungry."
Prewit has collected food, clothing, medical supplies, furniture,
blankets and linens.
"Anything that's in your house, I need to get out there," Prewit says .
Help from individuals and corporations is necessary to get the goods to
reservations.
Prewit says his diesel truck gets eight or nine miles per gallon. That
adds up to $1,300 to $1,500 in gasoline per trip.
Native American Evangelism Leader Sonny Grigg says American Indians in
the northwest live in conditions comparable to those of Hurricane
Katrina victims. "(The American Indians) just don't complain as much.
They don't want anything to do with anybody, but it has got so bad that
they asked for help," he says.
The utilities are frequently turned off, people sleep in cars, children
live in poverty with no future and alcoholism is rampant on the
reservations, Grigg says.
"We are going to get these kids up and going. We can make a difference
because this has never been done before," he says.