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Operation Compassion Warehouse Dedicated on Children's
Home Property
12/10/01
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View of ribbon
cutting ceremony of new warehouse.
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It was a picture-perfect day with a crowd of excited participants
as the ribbon was cut for the new Operation Compassion/ Love Reaching
Warehouse on the campus of the Smoky Mountain Children’s Home
in Sevierville, Tennessee on December 6, 2001.
The opening of the 12,000 sq. ft. facility has been much anticipated
by John D. Nichols, executive director of care ministries, Director
of Benevolence Field Ministries David Lorency, and Paul Duncan,
superintendent of the Children’s Home. Combining their efforts
and resources, these administrators have built a unique warehouse
which will serve the needs of Operation Compassion, which include
feeding the hungry and clothing the needy and Smoky Mountain Children’s
Home, which receives a new maintenance facility and campus stockroom.
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New Facility
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The building houses a massive walk-in freezer and a cooler, both
of which will hold two tractor trailer loads of perishable food
supplies and a large floor space for non-perishable items, a small
campus store with bulk storage capabilities, and a large maintenance
area for the Children’s Home.
Participating in the ribbon cutting celebration was Dr. R. Lamar
Vest, Dr. T.L. Lowery, Dr. Gene D. Rice; Mayor of Sevierville, Bryan
Atchley; Nichols, Lorency and Duncan. The ceremony preceded another
momentous occasion on the campus later that afternoon, the ground-breaking
for the new Iris B. Vest Widows Care and Ministry Center.
The warehouse is one more link in the chain of the Operation Compassion
network across the United States which moves and distributes millions
of dollars worth of needed supplies to the hungry and needy.
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