Monday
Went out with two crews today, both on the chainsaw and limb cleanup detail. It was an elder from the church's house. I imagined how nice it was going to be for them to return to their clean yard that hours earlier had been strown with limbs, debris, and trees. We even cleaned their pool... after we took a dip. We were praising the Lord for pools. It's over 90 degrees here. and humidity like a sauna.
The second crew, we were directed by Dan, the preacher from Slidell. I rode with an elder from the Karns congregation in Knoxville name Don Denton. He and his wife are down helping. He knows my dad, Brett and Melanie, and the Hamlens of course. We had a terrific conversation about elder's and their relationship to the congregation. I asked him how do they show love to all the congregation and he just said that the elders must smell like sheep. We picked up some limbs from the yard of an elderly elder from the church in Slidell. He looked like Colonel Sanders. He had a concrete angel in his yard who managed to not get smushed by any trees.
For dinner tonight, three preachers; Rob, Paul and Brett dined at Petunia's. I enjoyed a fried eggplant with a crawfish sauce sided with dirty rice. A worker is worthy of his wages. When preachers get together we minister to one another.
The evening devotional was fantastic singing.
I got my Hepatitus A shot today.
A group of 22 from California left this morning, and a group of 40 came in from Ohio.
One of the brothers on crew 1 today grew up with Don McLaughlin and goes to the church he used to preach at in Indiana.
Special prayer request: a team of four from Northwest Church in Seattle are moving to Africa for two years on Wednesday. They are going to study to be AIDS counselers in Kenya and to minister to the churches and the people there. Their names are Greg, Kelly (guys) and Alita and Carrie (girls).
The Tammany Oaks church is about to start another website to update more regularly and it should be up starting tomorrow. The address is to be: tokre.org Tammany Oaks Katrina Relief Effort.
The second crew, we were directed by Dan, the preacher from Slidell. I rode with an elder from the Karns congregation in Knoxville name Don Denton. He and his wife are down helping. He knows my dad, Brett and Melanie, and the Hamlens of course. We had a terrific conversation about elder's and their relationship to the congregation. I asked him how do they show love to all the congregation and he just said that the elders must smell like sheep. We picked up some limbs from the yard of an elderly elder from the church in Slidell. He looked like Colonel Sanders. He had a concrete angel in his yard who managed to not get smushed by any trees.
For dinner tonight, three preachers; Rob, Paul and Brett dined at Petunia's. I enjoyed a fried eggplant with a crawfish sauce sided with dirty rice. A worker is worthy of his wages. When preachers get together we minister to one another.
The evening devotional was fantastic singing.
I got my Hepatitus A shot today.
A group of 22 from California left this morning, and a group of 40 came in from Ohio.
One of the brothers on crew 1 today grew up with Don McLaughlin and goes to the church he used to preach at in Indiana.
Special prayer request: a team of four from Northwest Church in Seattle are moving to Africa for two years on Wednesday. They are going to study to be AIDS counselers in Kenya and to minister to the churches and the people there. Their names are Greg, Kelly (guys) and Alita and Carrie (girls).
The Tammany Oaks church is about to start another website to update more regularly and it should be up starting tomorrow. The address is to be: tokre.org Tammany Oaks Katrina Relief Effort.
posted by B. | 11:43 PM
1 Comments:
Brett,
Don't know if you remember me, but this is Brian Burkett from Faulkner University WAY back in the day.
You pointed me towards my first youth internship in Seneca back in 1997.
Glad to see things are going well for you. Keep up the good work on the relief effort. God bless
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