Volunteers return from second trip to Louisiana

ROCKY POINT, NC (WWAY) — Volunteers at a Pender County church just returned home from their second trip to Louisiana to help the thousands devastated by flooding. The volunteers just wanted to help, but in turn they left with something they never expected.

Pastor Jeff Daw and the volunteers from his Church in Rocky Point drove to Louisiana to hoping to bring help and hope to the thousands left in unimaginable situations.

“Just everything that everybody has just pushed out in their front yard and it’s like on display,” Daw said.

As they handed out meals and clothes and water, Daw and his daughter Madison tried to capture what they were seeing.

“I took a picture at a college actually. We saw lockers banged up into the street and piles of lockers, toilets, desks and I was thinking we’re about to go back to school and they’re going to have a harder time,” Madison said.

But through the devastation, the fear, and the loss Daw said he was able to capture something else.

“You see the devastation. You see someone being rescued and then you see that sign,” Daw said.

That sign said all you need is love. He said as they drove around with their van full of supplies, they came across that spirit at each stop.

“We’d pull up to somebody’s house and be like we’re here to bless you and they’d be like well the people down the road need it a little worse than us and meanwhile they’re whole house is in their front yard,”  Daw said.

He said they came to bring hope and help, but they left knowing all you need is love.

He adds they are planning a third trip in the fall but this time they really need volunteers because the focus now is on clean up.