Friday, May 28, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Grand ole mess: Tennessee churches, Christian university rally after flood
NASHVILLE, TENN. - In Jesus’ familiar parable, a host demands that his servants search “streets and alleys” for people to serve at a great banquet.
But for the Bellevue Church of Christ, it was the freeway — Interstate 40, closed by torrential rains — that brought people to its doors.
They came seeking shelter. The church served them a banquet.
On that first Sunday in May, when the Bellevue church served and housed stranded motorists and people washed out of their homes, the congregation experienced just a trickle of the need that was to come.
Storms that weekend claimed 20 lives in Tennessee as well as six in Mississippi and four in Kentucky. An unprecedented 13.5 inches of rain fell in parts of Middle and West Tennessee in a two-day period, overwhelming the Cumberland River and submerging Nashville’s iconic landmarks, including the Grand Ole Opry. Thousands of homes were flooded, and damage is estimated in the billions of dollars.
The Bellevue area, southwest of downtown Nashville, was one of the city’s hardest hit.
Steve Blackman, pulpit minister for the Bellevue church, said 40 families in the congregation suffered property damage, most of them losing everything.
“The Harpeth River flows through here in a serpentine fashion,” Blackman said. “Well, the snake bit us.”
The banquet his congregation shared with the stranded motorists on May 2 was intended for the church’s graduating seniors. Blackman arrived at the building at 7 a.m., as usual, to make final preparations for the morning’s services.
Within an hour, floodwaters blocked the roads between his house and the church. His family wouldn’t be joining him for worship. Then the minister heard that the songleader’s house had flooded.
Only 89 people made it to the 9 a.m. assembly out of the customary 700. Once there, some couldn’t make it home.
The congregation opened its doors to other people caught by the flood. The meal prepared for the graduates went to about 100 overnight guests. Bellevue members supplied air mattresses, sheets and blankets.
The last “customers” arrived at 4 a.m. Monday, said Blackman, who finally got home that night.
NEEDS IN A DIVERSE COMMUNITY
In the days that followed, the Bellevue church became a focal point for relief and reconstruction. The congregation has worked with aid organizations to train volunteers to enter damaged homes and prepare them for rebuilding, tearing out waterlogged drywall and removing articles fouled with river water.
Southeast of downtown, the Antioch Church of Christ serves an area hard hit by waters from Mill Creek.
In a community known for diversity, the congregation reaches out to residents from 66 countries in its English classes, said Lisa Steele, director of English-language classes and the Hispanic ministry.
While a few in the congregation suffered damage, the Antioch church assisted 700 families — 60 to 70 percent of them immigrants — the first six days after the flood, Steele said.
“We were surrounded by water,” Steele recalled. “They were launching rescue boats right in front of our building.”
With the church forced to cancel services, the Antioch staff got to work as waters receded. On Tuesday, leaders went door to door surveying damage. In touch with Nashville-based Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort, the church received a truckload of supplies Tuesday night. And Steele said Antioch served “hundreds and hundreds” of meals with the help of Lake Jackson, Texas-based Disaster Assistance CoC, a mobile-food ministry.
About two weeks after the disaster, the church hosted a Hispanic community meeting with representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other assistance organizations. An information booth in Spanish located in the church lobby offers information to people still seeking help.
WIDOWS, ELDERLY DISPLACED
Other parts of Nashville — and places far from the state capital — mirrored the destruction in Bellevue and Antioch.
The small Pennington Bend Church of Christ meets across from Opryland Hotel, which was evacuated because of Cumberland River floodwaters.
Three Pennington Bend members lost their homes, and eight suffered considerable damage, said minister Tom Boyette. Most of the victims are widows, Boyette said, adding that many in his congregation are in their 80s.
At press time, one Pennington Bend family was temporarily living in the church building, which escaped damage. Boyette and his wife hosted a displaced member and her neighbor and son.
With Pennington Bend’s resources limited, the minister said, the congregation was working closely with the larger Mt. Juliet Church of Christ, east of Nashville.
In West Tennessee, members of the Millington Church of Christ, north of Memphis, also suffered damage from heavy rainfall and breached levees.
Family minister and elder Howard Howell said that 10 families in the congregation lost nearly everything. He said he was grateful for volunteers from nearby congregations helping rebuild Millington homes.
“One of the most amazing things is the churches working together,” Howell said. “It’s totally different when you have other folks working with you.”
‘IT’S ALL COME HOME TO US’
While congregations helped members and neighbors, organizations tied to Churches of Christ also played key roles in the Tennessee flood response.
By the end of the third week after the floods, Nashville’s Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort had shipped $1.5 million worth of flood-related supplies, said vice president and executive director Joe Dudney.
The organization set up 20 distribution centers at Tennessee churches, including nine in Nashville. In addition to the Antioch church, the Bellevue, Pennington Bend and Millington congregations received shipments.
Launched in 1990, the Disaster Relief Effort has distributed relief supplies to almost all 50 states.
With a disaster in the organization’s own backyard, Dudney acknowledged the tasks ahead.
“It’s all come home to us,” he said. “It’s big, and it’s going to get bigger.”
A LONG-SERVING SHELTER
Five miles from the Disaster Relief Effort’s 48,500 square-foot warehouse, Lipscomb University opened its doors to displaced people by hosting a Red Cross shelter.
Operating for 18 days, the shelter was the area’s first to open and last to close, according to university officials.
“While we have celebrated the work of students and staff who have traveled around the world to do mission and humanitarian work … this opportunity for service reflected the urgent needs of our own community,” Lipscomb President Randy Lowry told employees in an e-mail.
As many as 500 volunteers helped, serving between 400 and 800 people, said Walt Leaver, vice president for university relations.
Lipscomb agreed to the request May 1, just as the flooding began. A Red Cross trailer arrived with 200 cots that Lipscomb students unloaded in the pouring rain, Leaver said.
Around 10 p.m., the first guests arrived — a father, mother and several children. By dawn, the shelter had 70 occupants. Sunday afternoon, it reached capacity.
The university used its Student Activities Center as sleeping quarters and McQuiddy Gymnasium for guests to eat and relax.
“We just tried to provide some semblance … of life for those who were here,” Leaver said.
Above story taken from Christian Chronicle www.christianchronicle.org
But for the Bellevue Church of Christ, it was the freeway — Interstate 40, closed by torrential rains — that brought people to its doors.
They came seeking shelter. The church served them a banquet.
On that first Sunday in May, when the Bellevue church served and housed stranded motorists and people washed out of their homes, the congregation experienced just a trickle of the need that was to come.
Storms that weekend claimed 20 lives in Tennessee as well as six in Mississippi and four in Kentucky. An unprecedented 13.5 inches of rain fell in parts of Middle and West Tennessee in a two-day period, overwhelming the Cumberland River and submerging Nashville’s iconic landmarks, including the Grand Ole Opry. Thousands of homes were flooded, and damage is estimated in the billions of dollars.
The Bellevue area, southwest of downtown Nashville, was one of the city’s hardest hit.
Steve Blackman, pulpit minister for the Bellevue church, said 40 families in the congregation suffered property damage, most of them losing everything.
“The Harpeth River flows through here in a serpentine fashion,” Blackman said. “Well, the snake bit us.”
The banquet his congregation shared with the stranded motorists on May 2 was intended for the church’s graduating seniors. Blackman arrived at the building at 7 a.m., as usual, to make final preparations for the morning’s services.
Within an hour, floodwaters blocked the roads between his house and the church. His family wouldn’t be joining him for worship. Then the minister heard that the songleader’s house had flooded.
Only 89 people made it to the 9 a.m. assembly out of the customary 700. Once there, some couldn’t make it home.
The congregation opened its doors to other people caught by the flood. The meal prepared for the graduates went to about 100 overnight guests. Bellevue members supplied air mattresses, sheets and blankets.
The last “customers” arrived at 4 a.m. Monday, said Blackman, who finally got home that night.
NEEDS IN A DIVERSE COMMUNITY
In the days that followed, the Bellevue church became a focal point for relief and reconstruction. The congregation has worked with aid organizations to train volunteers to enter damaged homes and prepare them for rebuilding, tearing out waterlogged drywall and removing articles fouled with river water.
Southeast of downtown, the Antioch Church of Christ serves an area hard hit by waters from Mill Creek.
In a community known for diversity, the congregation reaches out to residents from 66 countries in its English classes, said Lisa Steele, director of English-language classes and the Hispanic ministry.
While a few in the congregation suffered damage, the Antioch church assisted 700 families — 60 to 70 percent of them immigrants — the first six days after the flood, Steele said.
“We were surrounded by water,” Steele recalled. “They were launching rescue boats right in front of our building.”
With the church forced to cancel services, the Antioch staff got to work as waters receded. On Tuesday, leaders went door to door surveying damage. In touch with Nashville-based Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort, the church received a truckload of supplies Tuesday night. And Steele said Antioch served “hundreds and hundreds” of meals with the help of Lake Jackson, Texas-based Disaster Assistance CoC, a mobile-food ministry.
About two weeks after the disaster, the church hosted a Hispanic community meeting with representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other assistance organizations. An information booth in Spanish located in the church lobby offers information to people still seeking help.
WIDOWS, ELDERLY DISPLACED
Other parts of Nashville — and places far from the state capital — mirrored the destruction in Bellevue and Antioch.
The small Pennington Bend Church of Christ meets across from Opryland Hotel, which was evacuated because of Cumberland River floodwaters.
Three Pennington Bend members lost their homes, and eight suffered considerable damage, said minister Tom Boyette. Most of the victims are widows, Boyette said, adding that many in his congregation are in their 80s.
At press time, one Pennington Bend family was temporarily living in the church building, which escaped damage. Boyette and his wife hosted a displaced member and her neighbor and son.
With Pennington Bend’s resources limited, the minister said, the congregation was working closely with the larger Mt. Juliet Church of Christ, east of Nashville.
In West Tennessee, members of the Millington Church of Christ, north of Memphis, also suffered damage from heavy rainfall and breached levees.
Family minister and elder Howard Howell said that 10 families in the congregation lost nearly everything. He said he was grateful for volunteers from nearby congregations helping rebuild Millington homes.
“One of the most amazing things is the churches working together,” Howell said. “It’s totally different when you have other folks working with you.”
‘IT’S ALL COME HOME TO US’
While congregations helped members and neighbors, organizations tied to Churches of Christ also played key roles in the Tennessee flood response.
By the end of the third week after the floods, Nashville’s Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort had shipped $1.5 million worth of flood-related supplies, said vice president and executive director Joe Dudney.
The organization set up 20 distribution centers at Tennessee churches, including nine in Nashville. In addition to the Antioch church, the Bellevue, Pennington Bend and Millington congregations received shipments.
Launched in 1990, the Disaster Relief Effort has distributed relief supplies to almost all 50 states.
With a disaster in the organization’s own backyard, Dudney acknowledged the tasks ahead.
“It’s all come home to us,” he said. “It’s big, and it’s going to get bigger.”
A LONG-SERVING SHELTER
Five miles from the Disaster Relief Effort’s 48,500 square-foot warehouse, Lipscomb University opened its doors to displaced people by hosting a Red Cross shelter.
Operating for 18 days, the shelter was the area’s first to open and last to close, according to university officials.
“While we have celebrated the work of students and staff who have traveled around the world to do mission and humanitarian work … this opportunity for service reflected the urgent needs of our own community,” Lipscomb President Randy Lowry told employees in an e-mail.
As many as 500 volunteers helped, serving between 400 and 800 people, said Walt Leaver, vice president for university relations.
Lipscomb agreed to the request May 1, just as the flooding began. A Red Cross trailer arrived with 200 cots that Lipscomb students unloaded in the pouring rain, Leaver said.
Around 10 p.m., the first guests arrived — a father, mother and several children. By dawn, the shelter had 70 occupants. Sunday afternoon, it reached capacity.
The university used its Student Activities Center as sleeping quarters and McQuiddy Gymnasium for guests to eat and relax.
“We just tried to provide some semblance … of life for those who were here,” Leaver said.
Above story taken from Christian Chronicle www.christianchronicle.org
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Tropical Update
New 2010 predictions just released 18 named storms, 10 hurricanes of which 5 will be major hurricanes. Weather conditions are just the opposite of last year.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Update of our past few weeks work
After spending a couple of weeks in south Texas visiting with several churches about our Disaster Assistance work, on April 4 I left for Yazoo City, MS, to serve food to folks affected by the tornado which struck that town on April 2. We were there until May 4 when we received a call for help from the Antioch Church of Christ in Nashville after that area was hit by the “1000 year flood”. This was our 2nd trip to Tennessee for disaster work in just a little over a year.
We have cooked and served 6411 meals as of May 15. Don Hudson (our director of Evangelism) has conducted Bible studies with approximately 75 people. His wife, Rosemary, is our no. 1 helper with our food ministry.
We are now set up at the Western Hills Church of Christ in Nashville. We have committed to this church and to Lipscomb University that we will keep our resources here helping at least thru June 5th. The need is great as the repair and clean up efforts will go on for many months.
We need your help to be able to continue feeding the families affected and the volunteers that are helping them. Our only funding is what our brothers, sisters and churches provide. No amount is too small to help. $50 will provide a good meal to 40 people! Below is what we need from you:
Your prayers
Volunteers
Donations for food and expenses
This is also a great teaching opportunity for your children and teens. They can literally help “feed the hungry” by working on their own fundraising project (car wash, bake sale, etc.) and using to proceeds to help us buy food to keep this work going.
Donation information to your right----------------->
We have cooked and served 6411 meals as of May 15. Don Hudson (our director of Evangelism) has conducted Bible studies with approximately 75 people. His wife, Rosemary, is our no. 1 helper with our food ministry.
We are now set up at the Western Hills Church of Christ in Nashville. We have committed to this church and to Lipscomb University that we will keep our resources here helping at least thru June 5th. The need is great as the repair and clean up efforts will go on for many months.
We need your help to be able to continue feeding the families affected and the volunteers that are helping them. Our only funding is what our brothers, sisters and churches provide. No amount is too small to help. $50 will provide a good meal to 40 people! Below is what we need from you:
Your prayers
Volunteers
Donations for food and expenses
This is also a great teaching opportunity for your children and teens. They can literally help “feed the hungry” by working on their own fundraising project (car wash, bake sale, etc.) and using to proceeds to help us buy food to keep this work going.
Donation information to your right----------------->
On Sunday we did 129 meals. It started raining Saturday night and continued for almost 24 hours so Sunday was a bad day for working. Also they took away the big
diesel generator that I was using for the mobile headquarters and the ovens. Electrician tried to hook me up outside the church but was unable to do so. That meant we had to take everything form the mobile headquarters in to the church kitchen including the ovens. My favorit job moving everything:):):)
diesel generator that I was using for the mobile headquarters and the ovens. Electrician tried to hook me up outside the church but was unable to do so. That meant we had to take everything form the mobile headquarters in to the church kitchen including the ovens. My favorit job moving everything:):):)
Saturday, May 15, 2010
301 Meals Today
Photo below is Don & Rosemary Hudson, Dave Neal(Somerset CoC, in Ohio) and local volunteers from Western Hills and Granny White CoC. They are the crew for the day
helping prepare meals.
helping prepare meals.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Volunteers needed
We are now setup at Western Hills Church of Christ in Nashville. We are going to be cooking for
volunteers and the community in need. Volunteers are needed for food prep. and to go out with
work crews to work on houses. Jeff Wilson from Lipscomb University is coordinating the work
crews to go out in the community. You can can split a group if you want , some can go out and
some can stay to help with food prep. Below is the contact information. Arrangements have been
made with Lipscomb for volunteers to stay in their dorms.
We still are in need of funds to purchase food and supplies.
To work on houses contact:
Jeff Wilson
Lipscomb University
615-293-0409 cell
jeff.wilson@lipscomb.edu
615-966-6056
To help with food prep contact me
Mike Baumgartner
Disaster Assistance CoC
281-881-1876
disasterassistance@gmail.com
volunteers and the community in need. Volunteers are needed for food prep. and to go out with
work crews to work on houses. Jeff Wilson from Lipscomb University is coordinating the work
crews to go out in the community. You can can split a group if you want , some can go out and
some can stay to help with food prep. Below is the contact information. Arrangements have been
made with Lipscomb for volunteers to stay in their dorms.
We still are in need of funds to purchase food and supplies.
To work on houses contact:
Jeff Wilson
Lipscomb University
615-293-0409 cell
jeff.wilson@lipscomb.edu
615-966-6056
To help with food prep contact me
Mike Baumgartner
Disaster Assistance CoC
281-881-1876
disasterassistance@gmail.com
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Just a quick update. We are still here at Antioch Church of Christ. We served 876 meals today and are
cooking 900 tomorrow. Than tomorrow night we are moving to the Western Hills Church of Christ and
setting up there. From there we are getting volunteer students from Lipscomb University to help us with
meals. Services International will be based in the same parking lot. They clean up and restore homes.
They will have 200-300 volunteers weekdays and 1000-1500 on the weekend. We are going to be
serving them and other families lunches. As I said we will be arriving there Friday night and will need to
have 1000 meals ready for lunch on Saturday. We will be based there from 3 weeks to 3 months. Many
different churches in the area are helping us take out meals also the police department is picking up meals
and taking them out with them to the needed areas.
If anyone would like to volunteer for a day, week or more just let me know.
I am sure all of you know that funds are always needed to cover our mission expenses. The information for
making a donation is on our website www.disasterassistancecoc.com
"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, ..." Matt. 25:35
Please pass this information on to anyone who might be able to help our efforts to feed hungry people. Please pray for the thousands of people whose lives have been forever changed by disasters and for us as we show the love of the Lord to them by just providing a simple meal.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Tennessee Flooding
We arrived at the Antioch Church of Christ late this afternoon. Had a meeting with the church leaders and than off to Sams. We are planning to cook 1000 meals tomorrow.
Monday, May 3, 2010
On our way to Tennessee
We arrived in Yazoo City, MS, less than 24 hours after the tornado struck on April 24 and have been serving lunches each day since then. We have just been contacted by Antioch Church of Christ in Antioch, TN. They would like to have our assistance in helping the surrounding areas affected by flooding. So we will be finishing up here in Yazoo City, MS tomorrow and heading to Antioch tomorrow night to start cooking meals and helping in other areas on Wednesday. The Yazoo City Church of Christ is now set up to handle volunteers and they have food and other supplies to hand out. This afternoon our ministry partner Don Hudson (minister of the church in Howell, TN) will be reviewing with the church leaders the 30 people he has been doing Bible studies with with so they can do the follow up.
Our mission needs 3 things to continue to operate
1- Your Prayers
2- Volunteers
3- Funds
We can continue to do this work of feeding hungry people whose lives have been devastated by disasters only with the financial support of our brothers and sisters across the U.S. We came to Yazoo City on faith and very little funds because the need was there. Right now we are cooking on fumes and we need your help. Donations may be made via our website: www.disasterassistancecoc.com OR
Make checks payable to and mail to: Disaster Assistance CoC
c/o Antioch Church of Christ
2142 Antioch Pike
Antioch, TN 37013
OR
Disaster Assistance CoC
c/o Lake Jackson Church of Christ
402 Center Way St
Lake Jackson, TX, 77566
Any help you can give us will be greatly appreciated. We will gladly put you in touch with people we have worked with in the past and they will be glad to answer any questions you may have about our ministry.
"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, ..." Matt. 25:35
Please pass this information on to anyone who might be able to help our efforts to feed hungry people. Please pray for the thousands of people whose lives have been forever changed by diasters and for us as we show the love of the Lord to them by just providing a simple meal.
Our mission needs 3 things to continue to operate
1- Your Prayers
2- Volunteers
3- Funds
We can continue to do this work of feeding hungry people whose lives have been devastated by disasters only with the financial support of our brothers and sisters across the U.S. We came to Yazoo City on faith and very little funds because the need was there. Right now we are cooking on fumes and we need your help. Donations may be made via our website: www.disasterassistancecoc.com OR
Make checks payable to and mail to: Disaster Assistance CoC
c/o Antioch Church of Christ
2142 Antioch Pike
Antioch, TN 37013
OR
Disaster Assistance CoC
c/o Lake Jackson Church of Christ
402 Center Way St
Lake Jackson, TX, 77566
Any help you can give us will be greatly appreciated. We will gladly put you in touch with people we have worked with in the past and they will be glad to answer any questions you may have about our ministry.
"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, ..." Matt. 25:35
Please pass this information on to anyone who might be able to help our efforts to feed hungry people. Please pray for the thousands of people whose lives have been forever changed by diasters and for us as we show the love of the Lord to them by just providing a simple meal.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
We are in touch with our contacts in TN. who are keeping an eye on the flooding for us.
If needed we will head there when we are finished here in Yazoo City.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Photos below were taken by Carol Ogle, Royce & Carol came over to Yazoo City today to help us prepare and deliver meals.
Royce and Carol are from White's Ferry Road Church of Chirst
From Royce Ogle's Blog
Food for Yazoo City Posted on April 30, 2010 by Royce Hurricanes make the national news on TV for about two or three days and then some sleazy political type, film star, or pro athlete captures the headlines. Meanwhile the recovery from a twister like the one that spun its way through Yazoo City, MS and further north of Jackson takes a long time.
At once, good hearted people of all stripes begin at once to see what they can do to help. Volunteers start driving in, linemen, and other tradesmen show up to do the work that only they can do. And, everyone of them needs a good hot meal each day.
Then there are the citizens whose homes left the county in a matter of a few seconds and they are left with nothing but memories of what home used to be and little hope for what home will be and all of them need at least one hot meal each day.
One of those volunteers who makes a radical difference is one Mike Baumgardner. Since Hurricane Ike, if a storm hits Mike is on the scene pronto! Carol and I met Mike in Galvaston. He and some volunteers were serving hundreds of hot meals to anyone who needed them. In the humid summer heat, for hours every day they unloaded trucks, prepared, cooked, and boxed food and served it. And, that is exactly what he is doing now. He told me yesterday that he is serving about 300 meals per day and could do 1,000 if he had the funds.
Mike needs help in a big way!
Anyone who has been to the grocery store recently knows that food is not cheap. In addition to the cost of the food there is the expense of operating the motorhome/kitchen, running a generator, and…., well, you get the picture.
Only God knows how much of his own money Mike has spent feeding people over the past several months but he can’t do any more. On his website at http://disasterassistancecoc.com/index.html There is a PayPal button if you want to help this worthwhile ministry. Every dollar donated will be used to help feed the hungry.
Speaking of feeding the hungry, Mike’s associates are Evangelist Don Hudson and his wife Rosemary. Don delivers food and then gives the bread of life! Don seeks every opportunity to share Christ with those who are ready to listen. What a team! Who was it in the Bible that cared for the needs of body and soul? Hmm….Oh, that was Jesus!
Please help out if you can. Visit Disasterassistancecoc.com site and help feed the hungry in Yazoo City.
Carol and I are planning on driving over to help serve lunch on Saturday. Come by and say hi if you are in the area. Mike is set up and the corner of E. Broadway and Hwy 49 at an abandoned car dealership.
Thanks in advance for your prayers and support.
For Him,
Royce
At once, good hearted people of all stripes begin at once to see what they can do to help. Volunteers start driving in, linemen, and other tradesmen show up to do the work that only they can do. And, everyone of them needs a good hot meal each day.
Then there are the citizens whose homes left the county in a matter of a few seconds and they are left with nothing but memories of what home used to be and little hope for what home will be and all of them need at least one hot meal each day.
One of those volunteers who makes a radical difference is one Mike Baumgardner. Since Hurricane Ike, if a storm hits Mike is on the scene pronto! Carol and I met Mike in Galvaston. He and some volunteers were serving hundreds of hot meals to anyone who needed them. In the humid summer heat, for hours every day they unloaded trucks, prepared, cooked, and boxed food and served it. And, that is exactly what he is doing now. He told me yesterday that he is serving about 300 meals per day and could do 1,000 if he had the funds.
Mike needs help in a big way!
Anyone who has been to the grocery store recently knows that food is not cheap. In addition to the cost of the food there is the expense of operating the motorhome/kitchen, running a generator, and…., well, you get the picture.
Only God knows how much of his own money Mike has spent feeding people over the past several months but he can’t do any more. On his website at http://disasterassistancecoc.com/index.html There is a PayPal button if you want to help this worthwhile ministry. Every dollar donated will be used to help feed the hungry.
Speaking of feeding the hungry, Mike’s associates are Evangelist Don Hudson and his wife Rosemary. Don delivers food and then gives the bread of life! Don seeks every opportunity to share Christ with those who are ready to listen. What a team! Who was it in the Bible that cared for the needs of body and soul? Hmm….Oh, that was Jesus!
Please help out if you can. Visit Disasterassistancecoc.com site and help feed the hungry in Yazoo City.
Carol and I are planning on driving over to help serve lunch on Saturday. Come by and say hi if you are in the area. Mike is set up and the corner of E. Broadway and Hwy 49 at an abandoned car dealership.
Thanks in advance for your prayers and support.
For Him,
Royce
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