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I was scheduled to have a booth space setup up there this weekend but thought the work we are doing here was much more important than standing around at a display booth.

Weekly Recap

Monday we had 180 people sign up for Saturdays food bank handout here at Hemely Road CoC. Don and Rosemary arrived and Don setup 10 Bible studies. Group of volunteers arrived from Texas to help for the week.

Tuesday Unloaded semi load of water one case at a time. Went to food bank to get supplies. Don had 27 people in Bible studies. We served 100 lunches.

Wednesday Food hand out at church(Bread, corn on the cob, frozen dinners)also signed up more people for Saturday count is now up to around 350. Don took out lunches and conducted Bible studies. Cooked 238 lunches.

Thursday Don took out lunches and had another 25 in Bible studies. Went to Sams to pickup supplies for Fridays lunches. Cook 114 lunches. 15 people from El Campo CoC arrived to help and hold vacation Bible School on Saturday

Friday Produce handout from the food bank and frozen dinners. Cooked and handed out 1075 lunches.

I have a church that can get me almost 1/2 off the warmer we need. The cost is now $1750.00 would be great if someone could help us get this.

We are very, very busy here. More people are coming each time we have a food or meal handout. BP still has not put the money in the account that was suppose to help people out.

Quote that was posted to one of my updates this week

Royce Ogle-I am so proud of you and the folks there for doing what you can to help the helpless. For some reason that is foreign to me, many people will get all excited about feeding people in some 3rd world country and not give a hoot about the hungry in their own back yard. Go figure.

More People Than Ever Today

We handed out bread, corn on the cob and frozen dinners. We also have around 330 families signed for the food bank giveaway that is here on Saturday. Cooked 238 lunches. Don took lunches out and had bible studies. Photo is of people in line 2 hours before we started.

Very busy day. Unloaded semi load of water one case at a time. Went to food bank to pickup truck load of bread for tomorrows giveaway. Cooked and handed out 100 lunches and Don had 27 people in his bible studies through out the day.

Today we signed up 180 people for Saturdays food give away. Don and Rosemary also arrived and Don has over 10 bible studies setup up for tomorrow.

"We Drive as Dawn".

Tomorrow morning early, Rosemary and I are leaving for Bayou La Batre to work with "Disaster Assistance" at the Hemly Rd. Church of Christ. We are helping this small church feed hundreds of meals each week to the people who have been so badly effected by the ...oil spill. My work will be to carry food to people's homes in the name of a Christian and to engage them in bible study and invite them to this church who is helping them. When we return, we will have a report for you. Thanks for your help and your prayers. Don

Tonight we have a group of 10-15 volunteers arriving from Church of Christ in Uvalde, TX. They will be here all week working.

Correction

The last two weeks I posted that we gave out over 1200 pounds of food on our big handout day it was 12,000 pounds I was short on zeros.

Today we only received about 1/4 Pallet of produce form the food bank, so we handed out 6 pallets of frozen dinners. Things here are most likely to get worse. BP has laid off everyone because of the storm and will most likely only hire a few of them back. People started lining up at 6:30 this morning and there was still people in line when we ran out of supplies.

Gulf Coast-South Alabama

Today was another very busy day we received around 1200 pounds of food to hand out. Below are the photos.

Unloading Truck

Standing in line waiting heat index today around 111

Getting food ready

Families getting their boxes filled with food

Update from Pikeville, KY Flood

Talked with Elder from Main Street Church of Christ yesterday and their members are doing a good job volunteering and taking care of the needs there. We will stay in touch.

Today we unloaded a semi filled with Hungry Man dinners(half chicken/half meatloft. Also BP is laying off most of the temp workers and most of them will not be hired back. This means that there will be more families needing help. You can help us just click on the donate button.

Well we had another good day today. There were 450 hot meals cooked and handed out along with a bag of food to everyone. Also we were still signing up people for Thursdays big handout, we reached the cutoff 200. Anyone after that will have to wait an see if there is anything left. I hate having a limit on how many people we can help but with only limited funds you can only do so much.

Gulf Coast

Today we gave everyone 3 bags of food, 1 case of frozen dinners and passed out over 400 hot meals. We had TV crews here from Ch 5 and 15 out of Mobile. Photos below are of people waiting in line and of volunteers getting bags and meals ready.

We have been in touch with the Main Street Church of Christ in Pikeville, Ky. They are having an Elders meeting and will get back with us on their needs. The church sectary said things are really bad and the roads are still closed.

Flash Flooding in Kentucky

Don Hudson our director of Evangelism is checking on what if anything is needed from us in this area.

Schedule For Next Few Days

Tonight - 15 people from a church in north Alabama will be arriving late

Monday - 9AM sign up for food bank handout Thursday
handout of food, supplies and more frozen dinners
500 hot to go meals prepared and ready to hand out at 2PM

Tuesday - 500 hot to go meals prepared and ready to handout at 2PM

Thursday - 10,000 pounds of food from food bank to be handed out

Friday - Produce from food bank handout and frozen dinners

Sometime this week a semi load (26,000)more frozen dinners will arrive

My wife(TY) came down here to help us for a few days. She was mowing a yard, stepped in a large hole and the result is torn ACL and must stay off it for 6 to 8 weeks.

The man in the middle wearing white shirt is Mr Roosevelt. He has been helping with whatever the church needs for the past 5 years. Some of you should remember him back after Katrina.

Unloading the produce truck