Imagine your church
Donna S. writes:
Imagine your church.
Imagine dozens of people living in the Sunday school area of your church, day in and day out, while you're still trying to conduct church business.
Imagine bathrooms that weren't really built for daily habitation.
Imagine everything labeled to help people find things and giving weekly orientations to help the crowds organize cooking operations, cleaning operations, group time.
Imagine the challenges for churches in the Katrina zone as they've turned their ministries in a different direction.
Can you imagine your church like that?
Imagine people visiting from all over the country, eager to help but needy in terms of everyday creature comforts just the same.
An all-team journal in the Gateway fellowship hall records the experiences of some of the groups who have passed through since last February.
Methodist churches from such places as: Virginia Beach; Isle of Palms, S.C.; Centreville, Ga.; New Albany, N.Y.; Cheyenne, Wyo.; Littleton, Colo.; Dayton, Va.; Minneapolis; Richmond, Va.; Orland, Calif.; Birmingham, Ala.; Queensbury, N.Y.; Clear Lake, S.D.; Canton, Ga.; Philadelphia; Lakeland, Fla. and, on and on and on.
Why do they come? Written by one of the volunteers a few months ago: "Finally God whispered, I need you my child to help everyone."
And that's what it's all about.
Imagine your church.
Imagine dozens of people living in the Sunday school area of your church, day in and day out, while you're still trying to conduct church business.
Imagine bathrooms that weren't really built for daily habitation.
Imagine everything labeled to help people find things and giving weekly orientations to help the crowds organize cooking operations, cleaning operations, group time.
Imagine the challenges for churches in the Katrina zone as they've turned their ministries in a different direction.
Can you imagine your church like that?
Imagine people visiting from all over the country, eager to help but needy in terms of everyday creature comforts just the same.
An all-team journal in the Gateway fellowship hall records the experiences of some of the groups who have passed through since last February.
Methodist churches from such places as: Virginia Beach; Isle of Palms, S.C.; Centreville, Ga.; New Albany, N.Y.; Cheyenne, Wyo.; Littleton, Colo.; Dayton, Va.; Minneapolis; Richmond, Va.; Orland, Calif.; Birmingham, Ala.; Queensbury, N.Y.; Clear Lake, S.D.; Canton, Ga.; Philadelphia; Lakeland, Fla. and, on and on and on.
Why do they come? Written by one of the volunteers a few months ago: "Finally God whispered, I need you my child to help everyone."
And that's what it's all about.
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