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The Greensboro Chapel pictured above is located at the Greensboro Travel TA Center on 1101 Highway 61 in Whitsett, North Carolina.

Mobile Chapels Provide Respite from Loneliness, Temptation, by Robert Lopez, featured the TFC Greensboro Chapel located at the TA Travel Center (I-85/I-40, Exit 138). You can read the story online by clicking here. The following is an excerpt.

Lead Chaplain Tony Pierzchala explained during the interview, "A lot of guys come in and just want to talk because they’re alone all day. It’s hard for them to be involved in their local churches, their local communities, when they’re gone so much from home."

Hubert Johnson, a 62-year-old driver from Statesboro, Ga., who attended the Chapel’s Sunday service, stated, "I’m on the road all the time, but I still need to get fed somehow. I need to go do my worship some place. I go to these chapels every Sunday morning if I’m where they have one."

After the service, the drivers drop a few dollars into the donation box and stick around for a while to talk with the chaplain. But many truckers will just want to chat one on one.

"It’s not unusual to have coffee with them after the service at the restaurant," Pierzchala said. "A lot of truckers won’t say anything when there’s a crowd. But sometimes they’ll wander in individually, late at night, and they’ll share. They’ll say, 'Pray for my wife who has cancer.' One Easter I had a lady show up who had just lost her daughter, and she just wanted to talk about her."

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You can contact Chaplain Tony for more information about Greensboro Chapel via e-mail at pierzchala@bellsouth.net or by calling (336) 399-9799.

Lead Chaplain Tony Pierzchala and his wife Rose coordinate the Greensboro Chapel outreach to drivers.

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