POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. -- Anyone who has run in Atlanta's July 4th Peachtree Road Race knows how far six miles is, from Buckhead to Midtown.

And for people in Israel and the Gaza Strip, right now --

"You're looking at rockets coming at you from five to six miles away," says Janet Cain.

Cain uses the Atlanta illustration of how short a distance six miles is to describe the impact of the near-constant, neighborhood-to-neighborhood bombings in Israel.

She estimates some 3,000 rocket bombs have targeted the Israeli side of the Gaza border, just in 2008, in addition to the missiles that Israel has shot into Hamas targets in Gaza.

"Everybody that's within rocket range has to take cover" constantly, she says.

But that's where Janet Cain wants to be.

She is leaving for Israel, leaving the peace of her Powder Springs neighborhood, this weekend.

She is going with two other Metro Atlantans.  They will join other Americans in organizing humanitarian aid for people in the Israeli neighborhoods next to the Gaza Strip.

Her clearances do not permit her to go into Gaza, itself.

"It's an open-ended trip."

And it's her 15th mission trip to Israel since 2005.

"Immediately we'll be trying to transport perishables in.... They do need groceries, they need some, just, everyday, practical, humanitarian types of things."

She'll also be working there with Operation Lifeshield, installing above-ground bomb-shelters at schools and bus stops -- for residents who have all of fifteen seconds to run from an incoming missile.

"On the average of just what we've seen this [past] year --  ten times a day. Ten times a day they're diving for cover."

She is encouraged that Israel continues to allow humanitarian aid organizations to drive truck-loads of aid from the Israeli neighborhoods, where she'll be working, directly into Gaza, every day; but she's frustrated at reports that Hamas immediately takes control of the aid once it arrives in Gaza.

"The goods that come in are controlled by Hamas," and, she says, don't always get to the Gazans who need the help.  

But she will personally make sure that the aid she collects will reach the Israeli residents next to Gaza -- Arabs, Jews and everyone else.  

Janet Craig is a pro-Israel Christian who took part in a small, New Year's Day rally with other Christians at the State Capitol, who understands the passionate, pro-Palestinian point of view, and who believes that her return to the Gaza border now is a calling, despite the risks.

"As Christians, we have, I feel, an obligation to go, because we can bridge that gap between the Arabs and the Jews... And we can go in, and we can go into the Jewish community, and we can turn around and we can go into the Arab community. So we have a unique opportunity there."

She says: If only THAT were a gap of just six miles.

Funding for the mission trip and the aid comes from various churches and Christian-aid organizations, and from the participants' own pockets.

Cain is Deacon and World Missions Representative for her church, Trinity Chapel of Powder Springs.