Satan Attacks Again!

This past week October 4 - October 11 myself and some other local Baptist went down to Baytown, TX to help them clean up after Hurricane Ike. We left Ogden Baptist Church at 5:00 Saturday morning and drove to Vicksburg, Mississippi, got up Sunday morning and drove toward Baytown, TX. Around Shreveport, LA we had a truck quit on us. The leadership of the trip tried to get a tow company to take the truck to a local shop to get the repairs done while the rest of the group rented a U-Haul and continued to Baytown. After we arrived in Baytown we had a dinner provided us by the NC Baptist Men, around 9:30 TX time we called Garry (the owner of the broken truck) and we asked him if he got any word on getting repairs done. He had not had any luck with it being a Sunday afternoon. We asked if he wanted us to come get him and the truck on a trailer. He said it would be an answer to prayer. So me and Charlie took off back to Shreveport to get the truck and Garry. We drove the 4 hour trip about 3 times that day but we got him and the truck back to Baytown with no problems. Garry got his truck to Power Stroke Specialists in Baytown, TX the two brothers there took very good care of the truck they replaced the clutch among other things and got us back to driving the truck the same afternoon.

During the trip we had the opportunity to help some really special people. There was one person that really weighs on my mind. This lady was one of the last we were able to help. She had a single wide mobile home in a not so good side of town. When we got there we found a very large oak tree had fallen on her home and cut it in half. It was totalled when we got the tree cut off the house to the point that you could see it she went in the back door to get some things, she came out with a box and a wall fell that was the last time she went in while we were there. I looked closer at the box she was caring and saw it was ruined by water damage. She had really lost everything.

We worked the week doing what we could to help the people the Lord gave us to help. We left Friday afternoon around 3:00 from Baytown and decided to drive through all the way to Wilmington, NC. Around New Orleans, LA we had a flat tire on our lead trailer about half way across the Lake Pontchartrain Bridge. We had no choice but to stop to change the tire on the bridge. Other than that we didn't have any other problems.

We arrived home to Ogden Baptist Church at around 3:00 pm on Saturday afternoon in the rain. We all said our see ya later's and went home to our families. At my house we just took it easy over the weekend and I got up this morning and took off in my truck. It had a problem, I came back to the house and looked and found that one of the gas tank straps had broken and was banging on the drive shaft. So at this point it is parked. This afternoon we find out that my wife lost her job. We know that it is just Satan attacking us for doing the Lords work but it is really tough. We know we just need to pray and the Lord will see us through. We ask that you keep us in your prayers and pray that only the Lords will for us will happen and Satan's power would be limited.

Thanks