12 Methodist Ministers on a Mission to Gulfport, Mississippi to help build the home of the most interesting man in the world
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Holy and Gracious God, We give you thanks on this Sabbath day. Our group of 12 pastors have returned home to our familes, friends and churches, laden with stories and a profound sense of Your Holy presence in the midst of chaos. On our hearts, we bear the names and faces of those we met [...]
Thursday is always a day of scrambling. Whatever needs to get worked out … does. This enormously productive week has yielded 354 work hours from our on-site team, not counting Teresa and Teri’s labors in the kitchen. We logged 100 hours today alone. Attached is a photo of our Work Sheet,
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We drove to Waveland, Mississippi tonight. It was one of the hardest hit areas, and has remained one of the most devastated. We drove at twilight, which highlighted the frightening and desolate skyline. I’ve never seen anything like it. The church pictured above is St. Clare’s Catholic C
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Today was a good day. The frustration of having a big job, but limited ways for folks to help was cured today as the whole team was able to finish laying the floor. The large, front room was finished yesterday, and today we were able to run the floors all the way back and into [...]
Midway through our week, we have found a nice rhythm. Today is the day we work until lunch and then then take the afternoon to learn a little more about Gulfport and the recovery that’s taken place over the last four years. The economy is limping along and the strong survivors seem to be the [
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Sometimes there are days where your task is big and your needs are few where the team is willing but the tools are limited and distributed with willing souls all around The clouds roll in, the thunder rolls, the momentum slows, and the rain pours. We take a deep breath and look around, and see [...]
Ye are in heaviness… 1 Peter 1:6 KJV There is a near relationship between the darkness of mind in the wilderness state and heaviness of soul, which is more common among believers. The resemblance is so great that they are frequently confounded together. But they are not equivalent terms; far,
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Last night was a pleasant evening of delicious food (thanks Teresa and Teri!) and wonderful fellowship. There was the brief, scary moment in our leisure time when we realized that each of us was glued to a screen of some sort. We shared the news of Patrick Swayze’s death and checked on footbal
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Today began our work in earnest. We survived the long drive from Atlanta to Mississippi, the hour-long delay while a hero in a small blue pick-up truck fixed our tire, and the early morning wake-up call. Teresa and Teri have taken on the work of hospitality and hunger management, and fed the two cre
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Well, two apparently. But the rest of us can stand around and write blogs about it. It’s 5 hours into our 6 hour trip, and we’ve already had one UFO (asteroid? meteor? Trapper Keeper?) thud into our windshield and now the re-tread has come off the front right tire, which caused the rearv
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