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The following updates are listed with the most recent first... Worship at Prothro Center On Sunday, October 2, 2005, we had the opportunity to participate in worship and communion with the temporary residents at the Prothro Center at 10:00. On September 25, along with about 40-50 hurricane people and a total of fifteen or so from Lakeway, our Praise Team participated in a worship service at 10:00 a.m. in the Dining Hall at the Prothro Center (Methodist Camp). At that time, some 76 residents were guests of the Prothro Center from Hurricane Rita. Virgie Holbrook and Sam Caldwell served communion and it seemed that all who were present participated. Most every word of the service, including the communion liturgy, was turned into Spanish by translator Maria. Our Praise Team sang “We Bring the Sacrifice of Praise”, “Tu has Venido a la Orilla” (“Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore”). Sam and Aubrey Caldwell sang “Pues si Vivimos” (“We Belong to God”) in Spanish. These Spanish hymns can be found on numbers 344 and 356 in our UM Hymnal. It was a moving service. Afterward, Rick McCommon provided a couple of coolers full of iced-down soft drinks and water for all the worshippers outside--off the tailgate of his truck.
Tuesday, September 6, 2005 2:00 p.m. We actually had folks in our worship services Sunday who have lost their homes in the hurricane and are staying with family. It was touching to worship with them and hear their witness of faith during our prayer time as they voluntarily offered their praise and thanksgiving for being alive and with their family. We do not yet have residents at the Prothro Center (Methodist Camp) but it is still available. I am building a list of people who can help with cooking, housekeeping, entertainment, transportation, job hunting, etc. We have school supplies for the new children which Pottsboro Elementary is already getting. If you can help with any of these, get your name on the list please! RSVP 37,000 pounds of bottled water was delivered Saturday Morning to the Red Cross Center in Baton Rouge. Pictures and video to follow. It was to be loaded on barges on the Mississippi River and floated on to New Orleans where it would go up some of the canals and be given to some of the people who were in greatest needs of it.
Friday, September 02, 2005 4:45 PM The semi is packed full of water. Rory Dunkle and I are leaving at 10:00 p.m. tonight to carry it to a Salvation Army center, set up in a Winn Dixie store in Baton Rouge. We'll be back for Sunday.
What a generous community we live in. In just over 24 hours,
we filled a trailer. May God bless those who gave it and those who will drink
it. A bottle of water, given in the Master's name.
Sam
Please visit www.lakewayumc.org and click on "Katrina Hurricane Relief"
Friday, September 02, 2005 1:20 PM
Our District Superintendent, Rev Fred Durham called today about offering the facilities of the Prothro Center to house 40-60 refugee families and is considering clearing the camp's bookings for the rest of the year to accommodate this need. If this happens, help will be needed to support Larry Anderson's staff in areas like housekeeping and kitchen. We will need a schedule coordinator for this.
Our semi is half full of bottled water. Rory will leave when
it is full. If that is after Sunday noon, I plan to go with him, but of
course, I won't hold it up if it can go sooner. Lakeway delivered 50 UMCOR
Health Kits last night to Texoma Specialty Care Center and Grayson Shelter.
The Nursing Home was expecting 30 residents evacuated from a nursing home in
Mississippi.
Housing is currently needed for one family member and one staff
member from that nursing home who came with the patients on the bus. Both of
these persons are victims too. These will likely stay at the camp cabin that
Steve Robinson and company helped fix up last night. But I want to begin to
build a list of people who might be willing to open their homes. RSVP...
Sam
Please visit www.lakewayumc.org and click on "Katrina Hurricane Relief" We count our blessings. And we share them. United Methodist Committee on Relief is urgently asking for:Health
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