Glenn Blauser helps load supplies for Hurricane Helene disaster relief.
Recently we watched a video from Glenn and Leah Ruth Blauser, who are serving with JAARS (Jungle Aviation and Relay Service), an arm of Wycliffe Bible Translators, in Waxhaw, North Carolina. Not long after, Hurricane Helene tore its way through their area. By God’s grace, JAARS did not experience any damage to its facilities (just some fallen trees and power outages), but they found that He had already prepared them in a unique way to minister to their neighbors to the west, who fared much worse.
JAARS has a training center in the mountains of western North Carolina to teach pilots how to land on jungle runways. This meant that their team is very familiar with the area and the people who live there. Partnering with Samaritan’s Purse, JAARS staff took donated supplies by truck to their airport, where JAARS planes and helicopters took the items to people who were trapped by the storm. As Leah Ruth said, “That's kind of ironic because we usually work with unreached people groups, but that usually means that they have been unreached with the gospel of Jesus and God's Word. Now it was people who couldn't be reached to get them supplies that they couldn't get out to get.”
We praise God for the Blausers and how He is using them to serve others in ways that are both expected and unexpected. Please continue to pray for them, for JAARS, and for the people in North Carolina still recovering from Hurricane Helene.