Jun
24
Written by:
Felicia Fox
6/24/2009 2:47 PM
They say, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Last week I went to War, WV for a planning trip. The youth and I will be traveling there at the end of July on a mission trip. I have been to the southern part of West Virginia many times on mission trips. I have brought back pictures and stories of the deep poverty that seems to have a death grip on the area. My mom has seen the pictures and heard the stories. She went with me on this trip.
We crept along the tiny mountain roads until we reached War, WV. I had been there before; the surroundings seemed natural to me. My mother had only seen the pictures and heard the stories. They had not prepared her. We saw houses with no doors or windows with families living in them. We saw power lines touching the ground. We saw homes with the sides falling off with people inside. The poverty was all around us.
I have tried to prepare my mother and the other people going on the trip in July. I don’t think I really can. “A picture is worth a thousand words."
