{"id":3240,"date":"2024-10-01T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/100.28.115.227\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2025-01-30T19:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:50:31","slug":"keeping-the-faith-in-quitman-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salarmyeds.org\/index.php\/2024\/10\/01\/keeping-the-faith-in-quitman-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the Faith in Quitman, Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Quitman, GA (October 1, 2024) <\/strong>– In the small city of Quitman in Brooks County Georgia, residents are weary of back-to-back disasters. In the past 18 months they\u2019ve experienced four major weather events\u2014Hurricane Idalia, straight line windstorms, heavy rain and flooding this past spring, and then Hurricane Helene barreled through the heart of Georgia leaving a path of destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been told this is an unprecedented event,\u201d said David Crosby, Chief Magistrate Judge for Brooks County. \u201cThe state of Georgia has never seen or had a hurricane of this magnitude where it caused so much damage and caused so many issues for so many Georgian counties.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an experienced EMS and emergency preparedness official before becoming a judge, Crosby is no stranger to times of crisis like this and no stranger to The Salvation Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Salvation Army has been a tremendous help to us. During Idalia we worked closely with you, and you all became family with us both times. You all are a very valuable benefit to everybody. Every county, every state you serve. You have never let us down I can tell you that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judge Crosby is helping to coordinate the relief efforts in Brooks County. It is an all-hands-on deck operation. Even though the county is closed, employees are reporting to work and helping with the relief efforts. Every day residents line up at the Brooks County Agricultural Building to receive water, ice and a meal from The Salvation Army. At this one location alone, The Salvation Army is providing two thousand meals a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without electricity, Quitman resident Ernestine West lost all her food. She\u2019s been relying on meals from The Salvation Army. While picking up her lunch she was also thankful the county building had electricity which allowed her to recharge her pacemaker battery.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m holding up pretty good. I walk by faith. The storm humbled a lot of us and is bringing us together. I\u2019m thankful for everything The Salvation Army is doing. Without you, it would be a lot worse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

West is no stranger to service herself. A volunteer coordinator for the local Women Empowerment and Improvement Outreach Center, she\u2019s been putting together bags of diapers, wipes and other supplies to help families in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt takes a village, and we all have to keep the faith.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judge Crosby couldn\u2019t agree more and while he deeply appreciates The Salvation Army he jokes, \u201cI hesitantly say, I look forward to seeing you in the future but I don\u2019t look forward to seeing you because when you\u2019re all here it means it is disaster time and we need to get to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christine Rogers<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quitman, GA (October 1, 2024) – In the small city of Quitman in Brooks County Georgia, residents are weary of back-to-back disasters. In the past 18 months they\u2019ve experienced four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":3241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[24,110,94],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-response","tag-georgia","tag-helene","tag-hurricane"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/salarmyeds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/6a7487e469bfd245ddd2b528c579a3bf.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salarmyeds.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salarmyeds.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salarmyeds.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salarmyeds.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salarmyeds.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salarmyeds.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3242,"href":"https:\/\/salarmyeds.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions\/3242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salarmyeds.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salarmyeds.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salarmyeds.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salarmyeds.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}