Sunday Work Crew
Went out with some guys from Oklahoma today. They are here for a week and they brought their own Bobcats! We went to a neighborhood in Slidell-- hit really hard. Trees were fallen on just about every house we saw. Have you ever seen a tree go through a house? You can see plywood splinters, 2X4's, insulation, the backyard through the hole, stuff it fell on, it's really ugly. The ugliness is everywhere. Trash piled on the roads like baricades.
The lady's house we worked on wasn't in town, so we didn't meet her. But we cleaned her yard in a couple of hours except for the oak tree that went through the house. She kept it on the house because the insurance hasn't seen it yet. People are really careful about the insurance people because they are treating people really bad in these times. They don't want to pay... it's good business to collect premiums, but not to pay out!
The neighbor Thomas and his son Dustin were out cleaning their yard as carpenters were on the roof. Thomas is a barge worker and they are calling him out, but he can't go to work with his house all open to the elements with his wife and children there. Once he goes out, he'll be there a while. So we helped them too. And prayed with them.
A neighbor named Gary, we discovered grew up in the COC, got out because he couldn't do music in it. He owned a Model A Ford that had been crushed by a pine tree. No more parades for Gary. We prayed a prayer of thanksgiving for the safety of all his family. He asked if we could pray and heal his Model A. I said I would have to practice faith mechanicing on my '79 VW bus!
There's another organization Hilltop Rescue is being headed up by Richard and Rick Machen. We were greeted also by Jesse from the Orchard Street Church of Christ in Tacoma Washington. They run this work camp in relation with Rick's home church Tammany Oaks. They purposely have a separate (but partnering) organization so that non-Christians can help with the work and not feel like they are bolstering any religion (even though they are promoting social gospel!)
One thought about the work end of T.O.'s operation: They have a "GIT R DUN" board of jobs to be done, a "BIN DUN" board for completed jobs. I've BIN DUN tonight, good night.
The lady's house we worked on wasn't in town, so we didn't meet her. But we cleaned her yard in a couple of hours except for the oak tree that went through the house. She kept it on the house because the insurance hasn't seen it yet. People are really careful about the insurance people because they are treating people really bad in these times. They don't want to pay... it's good business to collect premiums, but not to pay out!
The neighbor Thomas and his son Dustin were out cleaning their yard as carpenters were on the roof. Thomas is a barge worker and they are calling him out, but he can't go to work with his house all open to the elements with his wife and children there. Once he goes out, he'll be there a while. So we helped them too. And prayed with them.
A neighbor named Gary, we discovered grew up in the COC, got out because he couldn't do music in it. He owned a Model A Ford that had been crushed by a pine tree. No more parades for Gary. We prayed a prayer of thanksgiving for the safety of all his family. He asked if we could pray and heal his Model A. I said I would have to practice faith mechanicing on my '79 VW bus!
There's another organization Hilltop Rescue is being headed up by Richard and Rick Machen. We were greeted also by Jesse from the Orchard Street Church of Christ in Tacoma Washington. They run this work camp in relation with Rick's home church Tammany Oaks. They purposely have a separate (but partnering) organization so that non-Christians can help with the work and not feel like they are bolstering any religion (even though they are promoting social gospel!)
One thought about the work end of T.O.'s operation: They have a "GIT R DUN" board of jobs to be done, a "BIN DUN" board for completed jobs. I've BIN DUN tonight, good night.
posted by B. | 9:19 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home