Hurricane Katrina "Operation Faith in Action"

Well I sit here with much to say and very little time to say it in. The last 24 hours have been somewhat of a whirl wind. I was in a advisory board meeting Tuesday and in that meeting an opportunity was presented to go and help with clean up and relief efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi. The initial idea of it peaked my interest but I figured there would be no way I could make it work.
Then at least 2 other individuals I came in contact that night and then the next morning suggested that I should seriously consider going. So I got back in contact with Brian Trainer and he gave me the details of the trip. You know it is so cool to see how the Lord opens doors of oppurtunity for service, and then makes our schedules work to make it happen ... It is only of the Lord that I am able to go on this trip. I made the decsion to go at about 3:30pm on Wednesday, and we leave at 2:30pm on Thursday the 8th. We will be gone for about 10 days.

I think God wants me on this trip to teach me, and grow me and help me understand just how much we have been given in this life! I believe it will be an incredible adventure.

Adventure becasue in some sense we dont know axactly what we will be doing once there. We have been told mostly demolition and clearing of trees and debri. a lot of hard manual labor.

We will be working with and orginazation called Operation Renewed Hope, that is directly involved in cordinating such relief efforts. Follow this link to there web site Operation Renewed Hope.org

I am traveling down with a team " Operation Faith in Action" that consits of Brian Trainer, Vice President of Faith Baptist Bible College, Ankeny, IA. who is the guy that put this all in motion. 10 Faith Baptist Bible College male students, and 5 local area church pastors. including my Church, Saylorville's Pastor Kevin Thomas. I believe there will be updates on the Faith website as well.

I am excited to see how God is going to work in this group. I am also excited to see how He is going to use us to minister to the Churches and People in the two towns we are going too.
The first town is Slidell, LA and the second will be Golfport, MS.

I also was asked to bring my camera. There are a few local media outlets, and individual oraganizations that would like coverage, plus to document our time and efforts. so I will be doing my best to do the work called there to do, and to also serve as photographer!

I think the last thing I will add is to PRAY! Pray for everthing you can think of to pray for. Also thank you to those that are sacrificing for me, so that I can go be a part of this ministry for the Kingdom!

I will update you all as it is available! Until then...