Our community’s ongoing recovery from Hurricane Helene has thrown the Transfiguration’s firewood ministry into high gear.

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During the past years, a busy delivery schedule for those in need of wood to heat and cook was about a dozen cords per year. This past winter our woodshed had been filled with thirty cords and was emptied by the first week of February. 

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Deliveries were made by several members of the ministry team to those who contacted the church and Hickory Nut Gorge Outreach. Disaster relief efforts in Bat Cave also became involved in distributing wood - and they blessed us in return by directing supplies of seasoned split wood to restock the Transfiguration shed. 

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Those split wood contributions from out of state gave us a much-needed reserve to complete our deliveries in February and March - plus a head start on restocking the shed for this coming winter. 

With all the storm related tree damage on the church campus and wood that was brought from nearby by the Bat Cave Disaster Relief group, we had an abundance of logs to saw, split, and stack. Volunteers from around the country were also involved in cutting fallen trees on campus into logs which we pulled into staging areas to process as firewood while other logs were sawed for lumber by locals and teams of Amish youth.

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On May 6th, our Transfiguration Fire Woodsmen deemed the saw/split/stack tasking complete for 2025 with over fifty cords stacked inside/piled alongside the shed. 

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Richard Glassen has assumed the organizational responsibilities. Our team is comprised of parishioners and other members of the community who recognize this as a worthy opportunity to serve the Lord – giving warmth to those in need and enjoying the fellowship of working together.

For more information or to ask about having firewood delivered to your home please email secretary@ectransfiguration.org or hngoutreach@gmail.com.