Unloading the produce truck

Produce unloaded ready to hand out

Gulf Coast Bayou La Batre--Last night our truck of frozen dinners arrived. The Jubilee Shrimp Co delivered them to us and are letting us keep 6 of the 8 palletts in their freezers.

Today we went to food bank and pickup 4 pickup truck loads of food and delivered 4 loads of furniture to a family who had no beds. We are also waiting for the truck with 8 pallets of frozen dinners to arrive. Tomorrow we will be handing out produce and the frozen dinners.

Wednesday we unloaded and handed out over 5000 pounds of food from the food bank. Also we cooked 1092 corndogs. After we were finished I took family down to Dauphin Island Beach to see what the oil spill was doing there. We could see some of the oil in the sand but didn't see any tarballs. The photo below shows how they are pilling up the sand along the beach to keep the waters from getting any further inland.

Waiting in line for todays food handout

Upcoming Schedule That I Know of so Far

Today food handout at Hemely Rd CoC
Tuesday meetings most of day and evening
Wednesday food bank handout at Hemely Rd CoC and cooking 500 meals
Thursday taking trailer to Gateway CoC in Pensacola to pickup food
Friday food bank produce handout at Hemely Rd CoC

Billy Helping Cook Breakfast Before Church

Breakfast Line Before Church

Church Service

Kids of Bayou La Batre

The below kids will also soon be needing school supplies. If you would like to help the information is on the right of this page.

Today was play day for the kids. They all save their change and keep it in a jar at the church and when there is enough they have a play day.

People of Bayou La Batre Standing in Line

I dont know about you but I dont like standing in line at Walmart in the cool building. These people here in Bayou La Batre are standing in line outside in the sun and heat. They stood in line this morning for a small bag of fruit and vegies. Than this afternoon they are standing in line to sign up for the handout next Wednesday because the food bank is only bring enough for 100 familes. So the first 100 who signs up today will get something next Wednesday. Hemely Road Church of Christ went to the food bank and bought groceries to give away on Monday. So the people will be standing line filling out paperwork that day also. How would you like to do your grocery shopping like that?????

On the tables below is all that arrived today from the food bank. We put 5 items in a bag and started handing them out. We soon ran out with people still waiting in line.

Photos below are from the food bank handout today. National Guard was on hand for help and crowd control

People linning up for lunch 1 hour before start time

Bayou La Batre, AL--Gulf Coast Oil Disaster

Kids from Bayou La Batre waiting in line for corndogs and chips before church. Tomorrow at 7:30 AM we go a few blocks to downtown and passout food donated by one of the major grocery chains. Friday fruit and vegies passed out here at the church form the food bank. Monday will be boxed, can goods and meat handout here at the church. If you can help us with a donation to purchase food and supplies that would be wonderful.

The only thing that came in today from the food bank was 20 cases of tomatoes

I had a really good visit with Goodwood Church of Christ this weekend. Goodwood was the first church that we helped as the Disaster Assistance Mission. It was nice to spend Sunday afternoon with one of the Elders, his family and others from church. Wonderful cookout.

Early this morning I left for Bayou La Batre, AL. The church there has a lot going on helping the families that have been affected by the oil spill. The small town relies on the fishing industry for most of their incomes. Thursday and Friday I am going to help with two food handouts and one on Wednesday if they can get enough food in. I am told the need is so great that they have the national guard on hand during these handouts for crowd control.

I will try and get some photos of this mission work to share with you. Information on how you can donate to help us with this mission work is to your right.

Below is our new display we have setup at Goodwood Church of Christ in Baton Rouge, LA this weekend.

New Page Added to Web Site

A new page has been added to our web site it is called Items Needed. Please visit the site and check it out. www.disasterassistancecoc.com

Hurricane Alex

I talked with all of our contacts this morning and it looks like South Texas survived without much damage and our help is not needed. So instead of driving another 10 hours south I am going to Goodwood Church of Christ in Baton Rouge,LA for the weekend. Goodwood was the first church we helped as the Disaster Assistance Mission back in 2008. Hopefully I will be able to give them a recap of our work sometime on Sunday.