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Drywall for flood victims arrives from Orphan Grain Train
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Stacks of donated drywall fill one of the buildings at the Harrison County Fairgrounds in Missouri Valley Friday morning. The drywal was donated by Orphan Grain Train, which is based in Norfolk, Neb.
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Elroy Koch, Kiron, and disaster response coordinator Vern Steinman from Orphan Grain Train's Norfolk, Neb. headquarters, met with the city disaster team and that resulted in delivery, Friday, of 918 4x8 sheets of sheetrock, 42 five-gallon buckets of joint cement, 40 25-foot rolls of tape, and 170 pounds of nails and screws to a storage area in City Park, all for use of flood victims and free of charge.
The Orphan Grain Train is in its 16th year of service, and in 2006, the group made a record 170 humanitarian semi-load shipments to the organization's 18 regional divisions. Many of those went to international needs, the remainder for domestic disaster relief.
Thousands of volunteers across the nation do the daily hands-on ministry of Orphan Grain Train. They and other contributors also donate the cash gifts that keep the ministry going.
Orphan Grain Train's name and character are explained, leaders said, by the words of Jesus Christ, recorded in the Gospel of John, chapter 14, verse 18: "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you."
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