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Friday, September 02, 2005

So I guess I should update on what the heck has been going on in my life for the last couple of weeks. Sorry guys, I've been busy/lazy.
Updates:
They caught that guy who broke into the church. As a result, we got a TV spot where once people saw it, the money poured in.
In under a week, we were given around 3000 dollars for our food pantry, the Rice Depot had dropped off 195 CASES of food, and people were begging for ways to help.

Well, now they have something bigger than us to help.

I went last night with some friends to the Red Cross station here in Jonesboro to attend a training session so that we could help out the refugees from the Gulf. I'm a youth minister, so I can play with kids. I'm trained by the Red Cross in First Aid for the Professional Rescuer, and CPR, so I figured I could help with minor injuries. There is no shortage of big-hearted nurses and doctors, though, who have also voulnteered their time. I'm a pretty big dude, so I can help with security. Wouldn't it suck if these people lost their homes, came here, and had the only things they could take with them stolen? That thought freaks me out. I'm pretty good with people, so I could do counseling and enter families into the nationwide database of lost people. Ahh, I just want to help!
Man, there are people who are coming in whose families still don't know if they made it out alive. Still.

The pastor of our church and I took my youth group yesterday to the store so that we could buy as many canned goods and dried foods as we could. We're going to have our food pantry and clothes closet open 24 hours a day from now on so that the families can have something if they need it.

Okay, I love you guys, and you all know that I don't get preachy on you ever. I really hate it when Christians make other people uncomfortable by shoving their religion down other people's throats. I just want to point this out...

Somebody robbed our church. It bit, but it wasn't the end of the world. The church was in debt, we were out of food, and had to almost stop feeding people. Then, people heard about it and started helping.
Money started pouring in. Our security is being upgraded. The food pantry was stocked.
But why? Why now, at the end of the summer, when our feeding program is over and we seemed to need all of this the least?
It's because God wanted us to be able to provide for these people. Now, we've got security, more food than we know what to do with, clothes for people without any, and a community of people desperate to help.

Everybody might not be a Christian, but we're all born knowing what is right, and what is not. It was put into us at the very beginning, but somehow, sometimes that conscience gets hurt or broken, but for the most part people know.

It really sucks to see these terrible things that people are doing to each other down there in New Orleans.

It is one of the most uplifting things ever to be crammed into a room full of strangers who just want to help the ones lucky enough to get away.

It's an incredible thing for sure that food and clothing was placed here for them weeks before they got here.

Bad things happen guys. They do, and I'm sorry, but that's the way of life.
Life moves on though, and now we have to either rebuild or grow.

Sometimes, people are amazing.

TimChose [ 12:00 PM ]