Mandeville Update, October 11th:
Teams visiting: Last week's listing of North Carolina volunteers should have included folks from Pinetown Church of Christ, Everett's Cross Roads Church of Christ, Rosemary Church of Christ and First Christian in Washington. Some of these men are staying over this week; we thank Kent Gurganus for preaching for us on Sunday in Mandeville.
We also thank the group from the Southland Christian Church in Springfield, MO, who were here last week. We thank them for a new refrigerator and for a new pressure washer!
We also thank the team from Beardstown, Illinois, who have adopted us as prayer partners and worked in Slidell and led services for the Slidell Church on Sunday morning and led a wonderful session at the Mandeville Church on Sunday evening.
Recent arrivals include thirty from Oaklandon Christian Church in Indianapolis, IN and four from the church in Bremerton, WA. These are staying at the Christian Church of Slidell and helping in a big way there. Also helping in Slidell and ministering to the community is a group (nine I think) from the Northside Christian Church in Yorktown, VA. A crew will arrive tomorrow from the Monterey Church of Christ in Monterey, LA.
Helping in Mandeville are these new arrivals: six from Oakcrest Christian in Shreveport (two will be cooking this week) and four adults from Cookson Hills Christian School. We also thank some hard working college students from Columbus State University in Columbus Georgia (Cougars for Christ): they have done some wonderful work hauling trees to curb in Mandeville, mucking out flooded houses in Slidell and helping us clean out and organize the supplies in our garage at MCC.
We really get attached to all these wonderful people and hate to see them go. But when they leave there are more wonderful people to replace them. It almost seems to me to be something like the Cane Ridge Revival. People just keep on coming and keep on sending us supplies and money. We are in awe of the wonderfulness of God and God's people!
We had folks in church Sunday as a result of the testimony and good works by our volunteers. It was rather incredible that two of the visiting ladies knew each other: they were college roommates many years ago and hadn't seen each other since! (And both knew one of our members - like reunion time!)
The tree cutting in Mandeville could go on for a while. You could cut in the forest forever, but we are mainly trying to get trees cleared from the immediate vicinity of houses and small yards (not acreages). We had one couple come by the church today with our calling card in hand and asking for help; they had been out of town and just returned to Mandeville.
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