Our Mission Team headed out to Copper Basin Crisis Center in Ducktown, Tennessee again this summer. We worked in the clothing center, food distribution center, doing repairs to homes and any other odd job that needs attention at the Crisis Center.   As always this year was unique and filled with unforgetable experiences that will remain in the memories of each one of the mission team for a long time.                                                                                                  The Copper Basin Crisis Center in Ducktown, Tennessee is one facility Heritage has partnered for about six years.  The facility is the life-line of residents in the corner where Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina meet and is sustained strictly by donations.  The area is a manufacturing and mining community that has dried up due to the decline of the industries, facilities shutting down or moving.  More than 750 families a month come in for one bag of food, clothing, and household goods.  The center helps when it can families who are unable to purchase much needed medication, possibly pay a utility bill, and even have fuel to drive to the doctor.  Our team annually lends a hand with repair projects in the community for a needy family, and the facility itself by packing food bags, sorting clothing, stocking shelves, and cleaning.  It is hot, dirty, hard work, and exhausting but so rewarding.  

 

If you would like to be a part of this incredible team, call Diane Blackwell, Larry Daniels or the church office for more details.   You don't have to be a member of Heritage Baptist Church, but you do have to have a love for helping people.   If you are not in love with Jesus before you go, you will be when you return.