Miracles Still Happen...

Our church has a HUGE event planned for Saturday, September 27 in the MLK Park. It is advertised as Miracle in the Park. We have plans for give-aways, hot dogs, games, church, baptisms, miracles, and Holy Ghost. Kent has felt forced to cancel the event for budget purposes. These type events are always fully funded by our congregation. How can we expect that to happen when each of us are facing major obstacles due to Ike?


Today enroute to Conroe from Huntsville (closest bank open) my phone began to beep with text messages and voice mails. (Our phones are still not operational 100% of the time) One of the missed calls was from Pastor Carl McLaughlin. He left message for me to return his call. Bro. McLaughlin has burden to help with relief efforts from Ike. Kent has just spoken to Bro. McLaughlin again. He is sending a large trailer our way to assist the residents of Conroe. Additionally, our church will be giving away Got Thirst Water. I can't post the MAGNITUDE of the giveaway until afterwards for fear residents will read the blog and will will abort our plan by coming prematurely.


Kent is pumped and refreshed. It occured to him this can be our Miracle in the Parking Lot rather than Miracle in the Park as previously planned. When we thought we were aborting our outreach efforts for this month it appears we are only regrouping and touching our community on a different day with a different plan. Of course this will be funded by those outside our city. Carl and Veta, thank you both so much! If things continue here as they are now we may take you up on the offer to your evangelist quarters for a night away, too.

Fuel is a big problem in Conroe and Houston. We drove into inner Houston today. The FEW stations that are open have lines longer than you can imagine. Some stations opened but have already ran out of fuel. Others opened but ran out of diesel to keep their generators operational and have closed. It is very strange. The damage appears so minimal in contrast with the loss of services we are experiencing.

As stated in a previous blog I am 45 years old and have always lived coastal. I have never seen such minimal damage cause such havoc. Of course on the island and even closer there is damage. In fact we have damage but I've seen far worse with less affects. We have entire infrastructure power systems down. It seems trees planned to miss houses, churches, and buildings and hit power poles and lines. It is amazing to me! Today we did pass a brand new very nice apartment complex built beside I-45 in Conroe with a huge billboard that fell through one building. I pray noone was home. If so I KNOW there was injury or fatality. My sister-in-law, Courtney owns a florist in North Houston and the shop flooded and had major roof damage. Consequently she lost almost everything in her business.

If power is not restored soon we will face even bigger issues. People are without work and will soon run out of money, food, etc. I love Conroe and the citizens of Montgomery County. Please join Kent and me in prayer that in some way we can be a blessing of hope to the people we love so much.