Back In The Bayou

September closed up pretty quietly, but October has been full of hustle and bustle.

We are back in the Bayou and have already seen a beautiful influx of teams. Many a thanks to Hendersonville Church of the Nazarene for bringing their team of three to the Bayou. Even though they may have been small in number, they did the work of twenty! And we are looking forward to seeing them bring another team in the future. As Hendersonville pulled out, Trevecca Nazarene University pulled in! Located in Nashville, TN, TNU brought a group of about 30 students and sponsors to help during their "fall break". (You go "volunteer state" - Tennessee).

It was a HUGE blessing to have them with us.
They helped us paint a home, landscape some property, sand some sheetrock walls, and clean up a local park in the Bayou. We (Danielle and Tim) have had many encounters with TNU mission teams before and we are continually amazed at the top-notch and most enthusiastically driven young people who come to serve.

We also had TNU help us participate in a unique on-going ministry that we find to be even more important than building homes or landscaping property-- and that's "prayer-walking". Many may find this to be senseless when there is so much "work" to be done. Or others might find that they could be used more effectively in some sort of manual labor instead of walking around the community and praying. But we know that there truly is no other tool more powerful than prayer. So, we must thank TNU for participating in what may have seemed "fruitless", even though they got a fee meal out of it at one of the best seafood restaurant in the area, due to an encounter with a generous gentleman on the road into the Bayou!.

Again, thanks to everyone and many blessings to you all. It is always a blessing to see missional minded servants in action. And from these servants still down here, keep us in your prayers.