The Volunteer Who Never Clocked In
When Hurricane Helene tore through Asheville, North Carolina in September 2024, Marcus Jennings drove fourteen hours from Indianapolis with a truck full of chainsaws, tarps,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 40:7-11.
When Hurricane Helene tore through Asheville, North Carolina in September 2024, Marcus Jennings drove fourteen hours from Indianapolis with a truck full of chainsaws, tarps, and bottled water. Nobody assigned him. No organization dispatched him. He simply saw the flooding on the news, loaded his truck, and went. For three weeks, Marcus cleared fallen trees from driveways, mucked out basements, and slept in his truck cab.…
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