It's been amazing to see how people rise to the occasion. We've had so many offers of assistance that it has just been incredible.

I've had experience dealing with the aftermath of hurricanes.

This is a place to make decisions and a place for people to decide what they are going to do, ... We are doing an injustice to people if we don't make them confront decisions.

My work at those adult retreats has given me some experience to sense when things are not right.

My folks didn't want me to go so far away.

It's really exhilarating to be connected with so many people, ... I have the opportunity of planting a seed in the life of young children and teenagers that will bear fruit that I might not ever see.

We ought to embrace the people who got in a vehicle and somehow arrived in our community, ... [Let's] let them know that Searcy is different than St. Bernard's Parish.