Church's trucker's ministry is off and running

By Philip Timothy, Message Staff Writer

PINEVILLE – They bring the food we eat; the clothes we wear, and countless other items we use in our everyday lives.

In other words, “if you bought it, a truck probably brought it.”

Trucks, and the estimated 3.5 million men and women who drive them, play an invaluable role in keeping the U.S. economy running. In order to do so, many of these men, and women spend long, lonely hours away from home and their loved ones.

The trucker’s big rigs, which command the road, offer little in the way of creature comforts.

Trucking is a hard, demanding job that offers these men and women very little thanks or notice.

Libby Lingenfelter, member of Kingsville Baptist Pineville, has made truck drivers into a mission field.Libby Lingenfelter, a member of Kingsville Baptist Pineville, has made changing these truckers’ plight into her mission field.