Tomorrow morning Kim and I, along with a team of 19 others from GRPC, leave for New Orleans. We will be doing a lot of rebuilding work in the city. Follow us at our team site. We will return on July 5th. Please pray for us, our team, for health, safety in travel and that [...]
Continue reading about Back to New Orleans… but just for a week this time
With less than 48 hours left in New Orleans, I’ve been reflecting on all that I’ve seen and experienced this summer. I’m not even sure I have the words to describe the devastation this city has experienced. We started working on the home of Matt yesterday and I spoke with him tonight. He told me [...]
This summer in New Orleans has been tough. The demand for both Kim and for me is unbelievably high. The cell phones never stop ringing and the tasks never stop. I’m tired physically, emotionally and spiritually. Unfortunately, the easiest thing to push aside when working so hard for God is time alone with God. And [...]
Here are two stories that I posted on the blog for New Orleans with AIM and thought I would post these over here as well. Enjoy the stories of how God is at work…
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Earlier this week, I had a conversation with Pastor Sherman Shelton. Pastor Sherman is the pastor of Firehouse Family Ministries and one [...]
We’ve been in NOLA for three weeks. After a week of training, we just finished our 2nd of 9 weeks of missions teams coming into the city. But yesterday was far and away the most difficult day that I’ve had since arriving here. At 6am, I received a call from one of our team members [...]
Continue reading about A Long, Tough Day - But God is Still at Work
After a barrage of traveling this week, we have finally arrived in New Orleans for the summer. Our team arrives tomorrow for training and we are excited to begin building relationships with them. For those of you who are snail mail inclined (or just want to locate us with Google Maps), here is [...]
Continue reading about We’ve arrived in New Orleans! (N’awlins)
