AUGUSTA, Ga. — A Dallas-based church is gearing up for another round of sending help to hurricane victims in two states.
A team of volunteers from the T.D. Jake's United Mega-Care ministry just wrapped up a huge disaster relief delivery in Augusta, Georgia for people who were hit hard by Hurricane Helene.
Now, they are making plans to provide similar services to the victims of Hurricane Milton.
Tiffany Brinkley serves as the community impact director for United Mega-Care. She is responsible for coordinating the distribution of thousands of dollars of relief supplies.
Brinkley and her team left Dallas to help victims of the hurricane as part of the outreach of The Potter's House Church.
"We are boots on the ground of wherever," said Brinkley. "We may not be first responders, we just felt like because this hurricane happened two weeks ago, we saw there was still a need here in the southeast, in Augusta, Georgia and the surrounding area, we wanted to be able to serve this community, and a lot of them are just now getting their power restored."
The volunteers helped distribute $250,000 in supplies to people in two states through United Mega-Care's Georgia Distribution Site.
The relief effort includes critical supplies like food, water, toiletries and cleaning products.
The relief efforts are possible thanks to the United Mega-CARE being in partnership with Destiny Worship Center in Augusta, Georgia, and the Jeffrey Lampkin Foundation in Columbia, South Carolina.
Volunteers have spent the past few days distributing three truckloads of supplies including one 18-wheeler of water, and two 18-wheelers of pallets of non-perishable food, toiletry, hygiene kits and more. The supplies are available to storm victims on a walk-up basis.
"We had families here in line overnight just to get food and water," said Brinkley. "Anyone coming into this community at this time is giving them hope. Outreach is a part of me. Even coming from Texas to be amid these wonderful families touches my heart. Plus, we want to do a great job representing our founder and pastor Bishop T. D. Jakes."
The Potter's House is a 30,000-member nondenominational, multicultural church and humanitarian organization led by Bishop T. D. Jakes with four locations that include Dallas, Fort Worth, L.A., and a Spanish language church in Casa de Fe. The church also has a huge online following known as E-members.
"We mobilized this giveaway in two days," said Brinkley. "We want people to know that we will be also working to help those impacted by Hurricane Milton. We are already transporting relief supplies to Columbia to help at least a thousand families there. Hurricane season doesn't end until November and we are going to help where we can and fill in that gap."
