A Good Day of Helping

I’m sorry this update is rather late. We had a full day of church Sunday and I had a full day of catching up on some things at home Monday (read, among other things, paying bills).

While I’m off subject anyway, let me recommend that you see the movie ‘Fireproof’. I would have pushed it pretty hard except for the intervention of Ike. It’s the well done story of a marriage in trouble so deep that nothing could save it - except Jesus. Bring tissue!

Back to Ike response: We had a pretty good day of helping last Saturday. We worked with EFCA Crisis Response crews in Pearland, taking a tree off a man’s house, and also in the Taylor Lake area. Ted Trela led a crew working on a home in Kemah. Steven Yowell led a crew cleaning up for Tom Morrow’s mother in LaPorte, and Doug Breaux led a large crew in Shore Acres, gutting the house of Tom Morrow’s grandparents. Shoreacres was very hard hit in the storm, and most of the homes had two to four feet of water in them.

Because of Rick Cousins’ story in The Galveston Daily News, we have a number of new contacts. We will be trying to organize response with some of those contacts this week and expect to have another solid day of helping Saturday.

Abbie and Tim Rask will be bringing down a crew from the church they attend in Dallas.

Men, if you were planning to go to Bible Immersion Camp please put the new dates (March 6-8, 2009) on your calendar, and let us know if you are available to help either in Galveston (Friday night, sleeping on the island, and Saturday) or locally (Saturday).

By the way, if you have a late afternoon or evening available during the week, or even a whole day, e-mail or call and we’ll try to attach you to an EFCA crew working in the area.