photo: ibtimes.co.uk
Kay Stafford owned a ruined frame shop. She says, "We lost all our retirement in the recession, and then this." At 76, she and her husband, who's fighting cancer, found that they were not all alone in the effort to salvage something of value. Crews of church members showed up.
“People poured in,” she [said], sobbing. “They asked me, how can I help? Most of them I didn’t know because our church is so large. They rolled up their sleeves, tromped in the mud, shoveled, carried, and began helping me sort out what to throw away and what to keep.”
A rare book store and a greenhouse, too, had a mess of mud and ruined inventory. "“There’s been tons of love here,” said the greenhouse owner. “I and other small businesses right here are just amazed. Churches, customers, friends, family, they just all came. Kids shoveled mud."
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