There's a buzz around here. More and more people have had that personal experience in volunteer missions. Some of the people who have volunteered have been surprising to the pastor. When a team returns from a mission trip, Lakey invites team members to share their experiences during the Sunday morning worship service. Sometimes those testimonies take up the whole service.
People get up there and just share.
When Hurricane Floyd struck Eastern North Carolina in September 1999, Kenansville was spared the flooding that struck close by in Chinquapin. As in Honduras, the church responded. This time the congregation adopted two flood-stricken families and remodeled their homes. Members who have been to Honduras were to gather this week to talk about what to do next. But if the partnership with Honduras had ended, Lakey said the church would do something somewhere.