Sunday, January 28, 2007

Interesting stories

Hi everyone,

We have had a very busy week. I did almost 60 hours at Ron's house. I am well into the finishing of the drywall and also am progressing on tile and bathrooms.

We enjoyed a nice Sunday. We were treated to an awesome service at CLCA. We had a guest speaker from the Chicago area who was a R.N. in a supposedly Christian hospital where she was forced to participate in one of the most awful types of abortion called live birth abortion. She eventually went public with her story after hospital officials would not listen to her concerns.
She was put on main line media like Fox and CNN. She has been invited to the White House.
I will share privately with any of you the details of her story. For those of you at North Ridge, I will be sharing about her to pastor.

Some cool stories:

I booked building a carport a couple of weeks ago and the materials were ordered. Ed and Marcella found us on the internet. He also is hoping I could add on to his house. He only lost his carport. His house had light damage. He called my cell phone Friday to ask me to contact him because he had a"situation", and he may need me more than ever. He woke up at 2 a.m. Friday morning to the sound of a can falling in his bathroom. He used the bathroom and went to his kitchen to drink some water. He looked out his window and noticed a person wandering in his yard. He looked out his office window to see a full size car literally ran into his house 2 feet. He was concerned for the lady. She was bleeding from her nose and she pleaded with him not to call the police. When he was calling the police she fled the scene on foot. She left her license in the car. She was very drunk. She had multiple O.W.I. offenses and the car was stolen. Damage to the house is probably at least $15,000. The part of the house hit has been separated from the main house 3 inches. They live in a quiet residential neighborhood. Spared by Katrina, Hit by a drunk.......... what are the chances of that???

Ron's Katrina story:

Ron works for a V.A. hospital as a janitor. He was required to stay at the hospital to help. He spent 2 full days before the storm at work with no sleep moving people to other facilities and numerous tasks. He returned home before the storm to get personal items to camp at the hospital. He packed his truck and had time to nap. He took his nap and went to return to the hospital. He then realized he left his vehicle lights on and the truck would not start. Not to worry, he had a charger. He hooked it up and waited. Then the power went out. He had no power, no neighbors to help. He was caught in the storm. He lives 2 blocks from the beach on the border of Gulfport and Long Beach. Long beach was one area very hard hit.

Ron saw the wave come up the street and in one second his house had 6 feet of water. He swam out a door. He never beleived he would die. When the flood water receded, he had 3 dead bodies on his property. One was on his living room window sill. His next door neighbor had a child dead in a tree. He found six bodies. His brother is a mayor in Brandon MS and arranged a helicopter rescue for Ron. He lost everything including his vehicle. That is more adventure than I care to experience.

Everyone is a victim and has a story to tell. It helps them to have someone to listen.


Another misrepresentation by the media is the toll of lives. They say 1300 fatalities happen but there are

6500 missing. They do not bother to tell this.

We miss you all. It was sunny and high 50s today. We had lunch at a Taco Bell and taught the Truth Project this afternoon.

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God Bless
Brian, Charlotte and the kids.

1 comment:

Shades of Change - Pigments and Perennials said...

Hello Again -
Those are quite the stories you have shared - wow! You obviously are where God wants you to be serving.

I sure wish and pray we had the warmer temps. It is down to 5 degrees here right now and supposed to get colder by the weekend.

Thanks to you, we are starting the Love and Respect series small group for others in the church now - beginning this Sunday. Many people seem very interested in this.

We had our final appraisal today. John Martin was impressed, needless to say, in especially the major transformation of the house outside but also the inside. Thank you for all your work.

Goodnight - Take care,
Sandy