Misplaced families from flooding receive food

After several hours of bagging up the beans and being inside the mission house wanting to get out and get busy, off went what once was the construction team which now is the distribution team of Parkwood Baptist Church. We had ask Pastor G did we need to get police out there to help with crowd control. Once again he said,"No problem". So we trusted him and got ready to start the distribution to 350 families. We started out with a prayer with the church members and others who were standing around waiting. Pastor G had brought in his disciples from the church to help with crowd control and the calling of each family name. Unbelievable what took place on that road that day. Pastor G only had to get up and ugly a couple of times. Then the crowd settled down and eagerly awaited for their name to be called. My prayer was we would have enough bags of grocery for each family represented. God is good all the time. We even had enough to go to another area and give out 50 more bags of groceries. The next day they were able to go to three other locations and finish delivering the food to others in need. Total of 650 bags of groceries were given out in two days by ten people willing to be flexible. The beauty of the respect Pastor G's community had for him was amazing. How his disciples who were also flooded stepped forward and worked and help the team give out the food to their family and friends of Santa Cruz. God is good all the time. After the end of the first distribution the team broke for lunch. Pastor G's disciple, Jose G's and his wife opened their home up to us to have lunch. Her home was also flooded and she was in the process of cleaning it out. Their home was built earlier this year by the college group from Southern Pines. Their water line was not as high as we are building the homes foundation higher up now. But my point is how many of us would open our home to a bunch of strangers to eat when we are in the process of cleaning up from a massive flooding. Once again I have learned what is true hospitality. We all sit and enjoyed our lunch while Jose G's wife stood there with a beautiful smile on her face. It had been 10 -12 days of absolute rain and so the children and a few adults enjoyed some good ole futbul outside under God's beautiful blue skies.

"Whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ."

Colossians 3:23-24