Helena 2011 Week 2 Camp Day 3
Posted by Dave Hawkins
AND NOW – the end is near. As much as we all would like to be home (I will be gone 15 days) , leaving will be somewhat sad. It has been wonderful witnessing God’s work here in Helena. Sarah had asked at the morning devotional for us to look today and see where we saw God’s work. We discussed where we saw God’s work today.
Bob and Carol told of going to visit Miss Helen, who has raised more than 100 foster children and has been caring for a child w/cerebral palsy for sixteen years. They also told us about little four year old Yawiakeem who told Miss Carol about Jesus who died on the cross after seeing the cross she was wearing.. At the age of four, he told her that Jesus died for our sins so we could go to heaven. Carol was so moved that she gave him her cross.
Gray and I saw God’s work today. We visited Mr. Curley and Miss Nora today. After yesterday’s ordeal at the hospital and getting her into her home, we witnessed a new person. The Lord had stepped in and Miss Nora was in her chair smiling and chatting away on the telephone. This is not to say that the road ahead won’t be filled with many obstacles. The health issues won’t go away. They truly need our help and prayers. Nora and I discussed diabetes and food and weight loss and the effects of each. Gray and I have been so moved that we gave Nora and Curley our crosses. God brought HBBC to Nora and Charlie this week.
Our group participated in a community church service last night. Hope and Carol “participated” in the choir. The songs were new and words unavailable but our girls hung in here. It was a wonderful service with a theme of “Building a City”. We have all come here to Phillips County Arkansas to help build God’s City. We are all unified as one in God’s City and the community and volunteers are here working as one. We had ministers from four different churches speak on a different pillar of support needed to build God’s City. We have worked with numerous Baptist churches and Methodist an Episcopalians and many, many others. If you didn’t see God’s work and feel God’s love last night, you need to crawl back under your rock.
We need our rest tonight to prepare for the heat of the Delta tomorrow. I’m sure that it’s hotter in Raleigh so we are not complaining – it’s really fun doing God’s work.
From the Delta, Good Night
Posted by Dave Hawkins
AND NOW – the end is near. As much as we all would like to be home (I will be gone 15 days) , leaving will be somewhat sad. It has been wonderful witnessing God’s work here in Helena. Sarah had asked at the morning devotional for us to look today and see where we saw God’s work. We discussed where we saw God’s work today.
Bob and Carol told of going to visit Miss Helen, who has raised more than 100 foster children and has been caring for a child w/cerebral palsy for sixteen years. They also told us about little four year old Yawiakeem who told Miss Carol about Jesus who died on the cross after seeing the cross she was wearing.. At the age of four, he told her that Jesus died for our sins so we could go to heaven. Carol was so moved that she gave him her cross.
Gray and I saw God’s work today. We visited Mr. Curley and Miss Nora today. After yesterday’s ordeal at the hospital and getting her into her home, we witnessed a new person. The Lord had stepped in and Miss Nora was in her chair smiling and chatting away on the telephone. This is not to say that the road ahead won’t be filled with many obstacles. The health issues won’t go away. They truly need our help and prayers. Nora and I discussed diabetes and food and weight loss and the effects of each. Gray and I have been so moved that we gave Nora and Curley our crosses. God brought HBBC to Nora and Charlie this week.
Our group participated in a community church service last night. Hope and Carol “participated” in the choir. The songs were new and words unavailable but our girls hung in here. It was a wonderful service with a theme of “Building a City”. We have all come here to Phillips County Arkansas to help build God’s City. We are all unified as one in God’s City and the community and volunteers are here working as one. We had ministers from four different churches speak on a different pillar of support needed to build God’s City. We have worked with numerous Baptist churches and Methodist an Episcopalians and many, many others. If you didn’t see God’s work and feel God’s love last night, you need to crawl back under your rock.
We need our rest tonight to prepare for the heat of the Delta tomorrow. I’m sure that it’s hotter in Raleigh so we are not complaining – it’s really fun doing God’s work.
From the Delta, Good Night
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