Tireless and ready to help

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Folks can be friendly in the North where I was raised, but no one could have prepared me for the true neighborliness of Southerners. My husband lived in Chapel Hill when we first met, but his lifelong dream had always been to move to the land he had hunted on in boyhood with his grandfather and farm it.

Eagerly agreeing to the move, I packed our belongings. We built our home miles from other homes. Our closest neighbor, Gary Martin, soon became our dearest friend. Never have
I met a more caring soul. When my husband is away, Gary never fails to drive over and check on me. When Steve needs help plowing fields, learning how to be a better pine straw farmer, fixing anything around our growing farm, Gary is there, tireless, ready to help regardless of the hour or his own workload.

His neighborliness is genuine proof of God’s existence. My husband learns daily from Gary, and we learn what it is to give and receive faithful friendship from our neighbor and our true friend here in Atkinson.

Kate Birgel
Atkinson
Four County EMC

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