Please refer to the message and prayer by Dutch Sheets on the recent hurricane and flooding. He offers more ways to help at: http://www.givehim15.com

Yesterday Franklin Graham’s son, of Samaritans Purse, was on television saying they will be needing many more volunteers.

There have been wonderful stories of praise/thankfulness regarding having gone through the storm with little or no damage, for which we thank God. For others, we remember to:

“Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2

“But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.  And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.  Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.”  1 Corinthians 12:20-27

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, even though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though its waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling.” Selah Psalm 46:1-3

“Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.” Romans 12:15

You were there for me…

Sometimes in a crisis, either in our minds or that’s real,
we need the patient listening of someone who can feel…

the pain that we’re going through, the stress that is there.
By listening to our “story,” they show us the care…

that we are so in need of at times of trouble or pain.
Help offered and a listening ear make Jesus’ love plain.

Best of all is when they offer to pray with us on the spot,
cooling things down in situations that are simply too “hot.”

P. A. Oltrogge