Sunday, September 18, 2005
Team 2 Hits the Road
Team 1 returned Saturday evening and Team 2 (organized into 3 seperate teams which is going to be confusing) left the building around 10:00 this morning with more campers and gear, more supplies, and more people. At 8:00pm after 10 hours on the road, they are about 60 miles north of Birmingham. They will spend the night at University Church of Christ in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Go Tide!) before continuing to our camp across the road from the new Tammany Oaks church building in Mandeville.
Interesting to note: According to Troy from Northland CofC this building is only 3 months old and the church members haven't even really had a chance to use it as a church building. Now it is a warehouse processing 3 trailers full of supplies a day, temporary shelter, and base of operations for the relief effort. By God's plan (which we seldom can fathom) the only damage to the building during the hurricane was a gutter torn off the roof. In the middle of mass destruction, He left a haven and has staffed it with dedicated servants. God is good!
Request for team 1 members - Please send your thoughts, stories, and favorite pictures from last week to john.n.mcguire@jpmchase.com to be posted on this blog and the Spring Road Katrina site. Now that you've had a chance to rest and sleep, the rest of us would love to hear about your mission. We'd also benefit from a simple narrative on the setup at the church, our camp, and the job that has been and needs to be done down there.
Team 2 has a computer with them and we have a good wireless Internet connection at the Tammany Oaks church so check this blog regularly. Team 1 did an excellent job keeping us up to date. Team 2 should be better equipped to report back and hopefully even more prolific.
Request for every reader of this blog - Please pray, right now, and regularly for our team, their mission, and the people of the gulf coast. This afternoon a new tropical depression became tropical storm Rita, the 16th named storm this year. Current projections indicate this storm will become a hurricane and pass the Florida keys into the Gulf by Wednesday. Really. Pray Now!
Thanks to the first team and their families for their sacrifice of time and convenience. Also, thanks to the ever growing members of this mission who support it through their time and financial investment. And thanks to the team leaders who are allowing God to use all of us so very effectively. Thanks for guiding us to be his hands and feet. And, we all thank God for this body of believers and the opportunity to reflect Christ's light in the darkness of catastrophe. Amen.
John McGuire
Ephesians 6:13-18
Some Pics from this morning:
Team 3, Week 2
Teams 1 & 2, Week 2
Making it work...
Many hands make lite work, but this fridge wasn't... It goes next week.
Wagons Ho!
Interesting to note: According to Troy from Northland CofC this building is only 3 months old and the church members haven't even really had a chance to use it as a church building. Now it is a warehouse processing 3 trailers full of supplies a day, temporary shelter, and base of operations for the relief effort. By God's plan (which we seldom can fathom) the only damage to the building during the hurricane was a gutter torn off the roof. In the middle of mass destruction, He left a haven and has staffed it with dedicated servants. God is good!
Request for team 1 members - Please send your thoughts, stories, and favorite pictures from last week to john.n.mcguire@jpmchase.com to be posted on this blog and the Spring Road Katrina site. Now that you've had a chance to rest and sleep, the rest of us would love to hear about your mission. We'd also benefit from a simple narrative on the setup at the church, our camp, and the job that has been and needs to be done down there.
Team 2 has a computer with them and we have a good wireless Internet connection at the Tammany Oaks church so check this blog regularly. Team 1 did an excellent job keeping us up to date. Team 2 should be better equipped to report back and hopefully even more prolific.
Request for every reader of this blog - Please pray, right now, and regularly for our team, their mission, and the people of the gulf coast. This afternoon a new tropical depression became tropical storm Rita, the 16th named storm this year. Current projections indicate this storm will become a hurricane and pass the Florida keys into the Gulf by Wednesday. Really. Pray Now!
Thanks to the first team and their families for their sacrifice of time and convenience. Also, thanks to the ever growing members of this mission who support it through their time and financial investment. And thanks to the team leaders who are allowing God to use all of us so very effectively. Thanks for guiding us to be his hands and feet. And, we all thank God for this body of believers and the opportunity to reflect Christ's light in the darkness of catastrophe. Amen.
John McGuire
Ephesians 6:13-18
Some Pics from this morning:
Team 3, Week 2
Teams 1 & 2, Week 2
Making it work...
Many hands make lite work, but this fridge wasn't... It goes next week.
Wagons Ho!# posted by John McGuire @ 6:52 PM 
