MT. CARMEL, Ill. –– A group of men at the Trinity United Methodist Church decided to “flood Music City,” with fresh, bottled drinking water, to help residents whose lives were impacted by severe flooding.
The mayor of Nashville asked the people of Nashville to cut their water usage in half.
"The water conservation order remains in effect for metro Nashville as the city works to restore the K.R. Harrington Water Plant, which was affected by the flood,” The Tennessean reported.
Delegates to the Festival of Homiletics, a national Christian preaching seminar, to be held at the First Baptist Church in Nashville next week, have been asked to bring their own drinking water and extra to donate to the people of Nashville.
Usually United Methodist take relief items to the United Methodist Midwest Distribution Center near Springfield, Ill., but in the case of delivering bottled water, Nashville is just about as quick a drive from Wabash County as it is to Springfield.
The plan is to collect as much bottled water from the Trinity congregation, other churches, organizations and individuals as possible, as quickly as possible, then get the trailer filled and get it to Nashville.
Since organizers announced Tuesday their plan to help Nashville residents, Evangelical United Methodist Church’s mission committee has offered its larger trailer, which will hold more donated water than initially anticipated. Trent called the first-day response to the idea “fantastic.”
Plans for a work day along with the water delivery are indefinite.