Arrival of Samaritan's Purse Relief Workers Is an Answer to Prayer for Families Devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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Arrival of Samaritan's Purse Relief Workers Is an Answer to Prayer for Families Devastated by Hurricane Katrina. |
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“My values have changed drastically post Katrina. I did have such a nice home, beautiful furniture, gorgeous yard. Now those things do not matter in the least. All I want is my family to be together again in some sort of little trailer in our front yard. That would make me so very happy. I’m sure, a few years down the road, I will once again want a nice home, but for now ‘nice’ things seem to have little to no meaning to me. When I do get back up on my feet, I’m going to do all that l can to help other people. “When we came home after the storm and found we had lost everything, I thought, ‘This is what it feels like to stand before the Lord.’ You have no earthly possessions, only what you have ever done for the Lord. Then when we started pulling out everything and throwing it all out to the street, I started to feel depressed. Not about the furniture, but about the loss of personal things. I don’t even have one picture of my deceased mother, my antique book collection, Great-Grandmother's china…things like that. It hurt to see all of your life sitting out by the roadside. “We had such large oaks and magnolias…every one of them went down. David's chainsaw had saltwater in it, so it wouldn’t start. People were passing every day asking for $1,000 to $1,000 to cut the trees for us. One day, a caravan of young guys pulled up. They were between the ages of 18-23 and had taken a semester out of school to come to Mississippi to cut people's trees for free. All they wanted was to pray for us and give us a Bible. |
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“All of our bibles had been destroyed. Everything was so wet. We tried to dry a lot of it out in the sun, but the pages would tear or stick together. This group gave me the most beautiful leather-bound Bible you ever wanted to see. Each one of them signed his name in it and hugged us and promised to pray for us each day. When they handed us that Bible, I felt as though Jesus was standing right there comforting me. I don’t let that bible out of my sight now. I read it every night, and people are marking different scriptures they want me to read.
“Those young men and that bible restored my faith and renewed my spirits. They were from a group called Samaritan's Purse. It was started by the son of Billy Graham. They don’t take money for the help they give. Truly, they were angels who came to my rescue.”(Reprinted by permission from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. Information extracted from their Employee News webpage.)
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