By Michael Davis
(Editor's note: Daily Herald staff writer Michael Davis spent three days and two nights over the past weekend with missionaries from four area churches on a relief trip to the devastated Mississippi Gulf Coast. But, as it turned out, the supplies were needed most in Meridian, Miss., where a church-run resource center had run out of supplies.)
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