@c_m_crawford I served a rural church in NW GA and only in the latter years realized it was in the federally designated Appalachian region. I am from an urban area - but we ministered to hungry and empoverished folks in ways I am still processing.
Thinking today about all the trans women I know who didn’t own a vase before the first time they were given flowers, often years into their transitions.
I was one of them.