Good morning everyone from Gulfport,Mississippi:
It is Friday and some of the team will be leaving this evening and others
will be arriving over the weekend. Yesterday was a GREAT day in the Lord.
After a day of good work we went to an outreach ministry called "Katrina's
Kitchen" Started by one person from Illinois, just after the hurricane, ithas expanded to a ministry feeding and clothing over 1700 volunteers andvictims of each day. I was amazed at the number of college age people there.Volunteers who chose to spend their winter break here helping instead of laying on a beach on some island. Afterward, we met back at our dinner tent and shared with each other highlights of our first week. As a team we have sent the past week
helping 7 families get closer to returning to normalcy. It was a blessing to do so but
the real blessing was realized when one of the young women shared how
she was a little embarrassed because she had spent alot of each day with some
neighborhood kids playing instead of working on the house project her team
was doing.This same team had taken on an extra project sidiing the home
of a policeman off work because of an injury who is not a christian. Through
the sharing we came to the realization that our being here is not about the
banging of nails or hanging of drywall. If this police officer or just
one of those children, through our outreach, comes to a saving knowledge of
Jesus Christ than all of our hard work had more meaning than if we had
completed a hundred homes this week. Continue to pray for these people who have suffered so much. As the pastor of the church we are helping said, think of your own home and towns.
Think how it would feel to not have your house, your posessions, your job,
schools, movie theatres, resturants or any of the landmarks or historical
things that make your town what it is. That is what these people are
experiencing and will need our help for a long time.
We thank each of you who have supported us with your prayers and financial
assistance making it possible for us to experience a closeness to God we all
find hard to achieve when we are at home going through our normal
hectic lives. Pray for those traveling this weekend and for another great week
serving our Lord. I will send more pictures and look forward to seeing and sharing our
experiences when we return.
In Him,
Scott Herwig
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