Myths and Facts about FEMA housing post Katrina…

Check it out and keep praying for all the work that is still to be done!

http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=43544

And keep Monty and Susan in your prayers. Missionary brother and sister serving in MS: http://msmission.blogspot.com/

They were robbed

We have been ministering to a lady and her family (The Pocón Family) since last summer. I am kerping this short but will say what I can in my time right now. She came to our home and I knew something was up. She sat in our living room and then the tears. Last time I saw these come from her she was telling me her father passed away last fall to cancer. I couldn’t imagine what this time.

Well her home was robbed while she was at work. Her door lock was busted… did I tell you she lives in a lamina (metal), wooden pieced together home (not much security from weather or theives). They ran sacked the home and stole her tv, blankets and dishes and other various items. It was heart breaking. The good news, no one in the family was there or got hurt.

As she talked to us, it hit me… they don’t have ‘insurance’ – what’s gone is gone. It’s not like they can file paperwork and in a few weeks or months get a check to buy back the items. Of course the first thing you want to do is replace it all, even if it takes a credit card, but God remoinds me how to minister to them.

We were blessed with a huge set of dishes last summer and so I packed away our plastic (bumpy from microwave) set to give away some day, along with our coffe cup set, silverware set, and some cups. I actually was going to give it to a new couple starting out for their wedding gift. Yes it was used but here, who cares! But God had that set waiting for this moment.

So we drove her home. My husband looked at the door for the proper lock to get. He handed her the box of dishes. The day before we gave her a blanket, so oddly when she went home and the others were stolen, she had one! We went to a hardward store to get an eye-screw (i think that’s right) a strong one. The first store didn’t have it so then we went to another and the guy handed to my husband and said, “free”. Too Cool.

We drove back and my husband helped fix the lock. She really needs and door, let along a new house. We have her in our top three families to get a home once things get rolling as God wants. We need to raise a lot of start up money, and once the production starts, these homes will be HARD to break into for sure! Cause honestly, you could walk through her walls if you wanted. We hope too, to raise money to buy her a stove. She has a filing cabinet she puts wood on top and that’s her stove.

In the photo, she’s the one crouched down. The house is too small to get a ‘normal’ framed photo. It’s her and her two daughters, their husbands and children. Please Pray for Juana and her family.