Eubank Church aids flood victims in North Carolina

EUBANK, Ky. ( FOX 56 ) — Two years ago, Clay Herd said he was the lead pastor at Licking River Baptist church in Eastern Kentucky, experiencing the 2022 Eastern Kentucky floods firsthand.

After the floods, their community was devastated, and on one random day, he said the church had a visitor from Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Herd, Lead Pastor at Eubank Baptist Church said, “I mean, flood devastation is just so different than tornado devastation like we experienced two years ago as that flood kind of has no mercy like it. It just annihilates things from foundations.”

“He was a friend of a friend, and he had brought us all of the supplies, water, shovels, brooms, mops, you know, everything that we kind of needed at that point. And so, Colin and I stayed in touch. We became friends. And when this kind of happened, he posted on his Facebook a picture of the water coming up on his house. And he’s like, oh, yeah, And the rain just started. You know, that was like the last thing he posted for days,” said Herd.

Herd is now the lead pastor at Eubank Baptist church in Pulaski County, and said his congregation had a desire to help but wasn’t sure what that would look like.

“Hendersonville just became the place. It was obvious God was orchestrating that we needed to go. And so he just lined all that up. And I never imagined that it would work out that way. But it was it was just overwhelming, just kind of how everything happened,” said Herd.

Herd, along with members of the church have already taken trips down to Hendersonville, saying the damage left behind by the floods has forced many residents to start over.

“In the midst of the hardest hardships, there is still hope. We saw so many people that their entire livelihoods were just gone. And, you know, we were we really minister. And, you know, we believed God is still good despite all of the devastation, despite all of that. And it’s hard to see that in those moments,” said Herd.

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Eubank Baptist church will continue taking donations down to Hendersonville as long as there’s a need.

To donate or learn how to help on the next trip, visit the church’s Facebook page .

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