FBC Minneapolis/ Lakeshore Mississippi/ Hurricane Katrina

I was asked by a skeptic prior to our departure: "what can you possibly hope to accomplish in only five days in Mississippi?!" If only I had known then how God's people were mobilizing. They were coming from Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, and elsewhere. We were but a cog in the wheel of God's purposes. Some tend to acknowledge only the physical evidence of improvement, but the people of Lakeshore, Mississippi assured us again and again that our presence was a ministry far beyond mere physical provision. As a glass of water is poured from a supply received through our hands, we may be remembered. We may be remembered because of the coat of paint that was applied to the floor of one family's home or because of the delivery of a new washing machine to another family (that's a story for another time). But a kind of heavenly mathematics multiplied our feeble efforts. Therefore, what was seen in Mississippi was not merely a group of eight scraggly gnat bitten Minnesotans, but servants of Jesus showing the love of God. So that, dear skeptic, is what was accomplished in only five days in Mississippi.