God sent His workers to help in disaster recovery By Dan McWilliams Father Jesús Guerrero, having been in Texas for a family event when Hurricane Helene’s flooding ravaged East Tennessee on Sept. 27, noticed one thing when he flew back in to Tri-Cities Airport in Blountville two days later. The pastor of St. Anthony of Padua in Mountain City had been alarmed by the near-total lack of information about damage in the town in the diocese’s northeast corner, as all power, cellphone communication, and utilities were out of commission. “My first impression was, when we were getting closer to the Johnson City area, it was just pitch black, no lights. There were no lights at all, not even in Johnson City,” Father Guerrero said. “They lost power in most of the town. No power in Mountain City.” Father Guerrero, also pastor of St. Elizabeth, spent that Sunday night in Johnson... Read more →
