MOULTRIE – City Manager Pete Dillard appealed on Facebook for local churches to open their Wednesday night services and suppers to Hurricane Milton evacuees that are here.

“What we need tonight, the famous Wednesday night service and supper at our churches. I’m asking everyone to please bring your vans, bring your busses. Invite these people to your service. Invite them to your supper,” he said.

In advance of Hurricane Milton, which is predicted to be a major hurricane when it makes landfall on Florida’s west coast, evacuees have fled to Colquitt County and have found refuge.

Dillard broadcast his appeal from the Spence Field campground where, according to the post, more than 200 people are sheltering from the storm in RV’s, mini-vans and automobiles.

“There are people who know when they return, what they left behind will be destroyed, gone. They really are heartbroken, scared, traumatized,” he said.

He went on to say that the city had arranged for a bus service to transport them back and forth from town.

“This is our opportunity. This is our responsibility,” he said. “Please rise to the occasion and do what we all know Moultrie can do.”