I know... two weeks... sorry

It's been kinda crazy around here. After the last post, I was sick for about a week. TIU didn't come until the week after (last week), so I did get to work with them after all. I also made a trip up to St. Louis to see Amy for a couple days. It was good to be together. It had been a couple weeks and I was really missing her. I drove up really early Saturday morning and came back Sunday night. It's been a week, but doesn't seem so long since we were able to see each other. She'll be back early next week. It'll be good to have here home again.

After she gets back, my dad and step-mom will be here to visit. We'll be busy with about 250 volunteers that week, but it'll be fun.

This week we've got about 200 volunteers. I'll have 24 at Rock of Ages and a hand-full at the other job site I'm running in New Orleans East. We're putting drywall up in that house as well. We have about 16 job sites this week, ranging from demolition to finishing drywall, to putting down laminate flooring, interior and exterior painting, roofing. It's going to be busy.

I had an opportunity to pray with a homeowner in Central City last week. Her name is Ms. Geraldine. We're going to be starting to lay down flooring for her. She started to rebuild after the storm and had contractors come in to do the work. They charged her $4000 to put tile in a kitchen, bathroom, and hallway. She paid another man nearly $50,000 for the rest of the house, but he didn't complete the job and left town. We hear stories like this all the time. It's the most frustrating thing the hear. People coming in and taking advantage of these people that are just trying to get back in their homes and start over. Anyway, after all this, she had to undergo open heart surgery. Now she's working 2 full time jobs, 16 hours a day, 5 days a week to pay for the house. She's been going to Castle Rock, our partner church in New Orleans, for about 8 months now.

Please continue to pray for our ministry here. Pray for the homeowners, especially Ms. Geraldine. Pray for our staff, that we would be unified, that God would continue to bless and provide for us. We've all been attacked with spiritual warfare the past couple of weeks. Pray for protection against that. Thank you all so much for your support of our ministry. We look to hear from you soon!

Phil