A Big Week

Wow, what a great week! I’m not really sure how we pulled it off. Suburban Bible Church from Highland, IN brought over 100 people down to help with hurricane relief. This is by far the biggest group we have had since we started this ministry. They arrived on Monday morning, put their bags away and were off to their work site by noon.

Suburban Bible Church

Taking a break from gutting a house

I told them to smile, haha

Doug Livingston, a missionary that Berean supports, gave the sermon last Sunday. He was talking about how we have to put our trust is God, with everything. I thought it was so appropriate with the week we had coming up. With over 160 people (including Wilshire Baptist) I was getting worried that jobs would not work out how I planed. We did have some homeowners cancel at the last second but it all work out beacuse it was part of God's Plan. He knew where He wanted these people. The jobs that we had to schedule at the last second ended up working out fine. I had nothing to worry about, I just had to put my trust in God that His will would be done and everything worked out fine!

House gut job in the 9th ward

Taking a second to pose for a picture

Installing doors

This week Bemiss UMC from Georgia, Living Stones from Colorado and Seddon Baptist from Alabama will be helping with Katrina relief. Their jobs this week include painting, removing floors, working at the New Orleans Mission and Fischer Camp. Please keep these groups, leaders and homeowners in your prayers this week.

First Week

JUNE 9 2007

What an awesome first week. We had 3 work teams in Plantation Community Church from Plantation FL, Cornerstone Bible Church from Terre Haute, IN and Heart Song, a musical ensemble from Cedarville University. The week started off with a concert from Heart Song at Berean, and I must say they were pretty awesome. Early Monday morning the teams all set out to their work sites. Their jobs included sheetrocking, painting, gutting and some of them went to Fischer Elementary School. Now we are getting ready for next week, Suburban Bible Church (check out some photos from the week) will be here. Also Wilshire Baptist will be in NOLA this week but they are staying at UNO. They are coming to New Orleans to participate in various concerts and doing hurricane relief when they are not singing. Please keep Suburban, Wilshire and Berean in your prayers this week!