We Consider These People Our Neighbors

Volunteers have been giving their time and energy with a heart ready to help. They were plenty after tornadoes struck but more than a month later, one group is still making an hour and a half long drive to finish the work most people have already given up. "Even though we're over a hundred miles away, we consider these people our neighbors. They're in need," says Sonny Forsberg, one of the 50 volunteers who drove from Alpharetta to help storm victims on Saturday.

Members of the Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church drove over a hundred miles to help out storm victims in Apison. They split into groups and one group helped homeowner Kenneth Tankersley get his home storm ravaged property back to normal. It was a task he was too overwhelmed to face by himself. "There's no way that I could have ever survived without them," says Tankersley.

This wasn't the first time this church made their way to a tornado-ravaged city in the Tennessee Valley. They visited in Ringgold last month and they plan on coming back at least once a month until they are no longer needed. "It's gonna take months and months of just cleaning up, cutting, just so they can get back to any sense of normalcy," Forsberg explains.

While dozens of storm victims benefit from the helping hands of these volunteers, the volunteers say, there's a big reward in all this. They're realizing what a difference a giving spirit can make in a hopeless situation and to volunteers like Forsberg, that's more than worth his time and energy. "The lady in the first house where we worked at, she just looked at me and started crying and she said she couldn't believe we come all the way not even knowing her. And that stuck with me."