Servants Unite Update

This article is written about the woman who has become the head harvester for Christ in Bayou La Batre. She has devoted what may be the rest of her life to rebuilding this community to soften hearts and win souls. She is under heavy spiritual attack, on her health, her ministry, her spirit, and her faith, though none have wavered. Please pray for Daphne, the work she and we are doing there, and the new Christians who are joining the flock almost daily that they may be disciples and have a true and active faith and relationship with our Savior.

Servants Unite is sending half the volunteers who are scheduled to work in Bayou La Batre during the Hilltop summer work camp. The goals for those 6 weeks of work is to perform reconstruction for 20 families that will utilize $50,000 worth of building supplies. We will be effective without extra funding to cover building materials, but not nearly as productive resolving the worst needs such as roofs, drywall, plumbing, and electrical work that is required for people to inhabit safe homes.

This cost is not usually the burden of this organization and Hilltop has taken it on for this project. But, if you or your church can make a special donation just for building materials for our trip July 7-July 15, please contact me immediately at my cell phone, or email address published on the blog.

Other weeks have availability through the end of July and two teams are scheduled into New Orleans after the Hilltop camp closes. You can still participate in any of them by contacting me as well.

If you are available the week of August 1st, we need help breaking down the Hilltop camp in Bayou La Batre for storage. We will drive down and probably spend the week packing it up and transporting it to an as-yet-to-be-named location to wait for the next response.

I will be speaking at GracePoint church in Lewis Center (northern burb of Columbus) Sunday June 17 on Servants Unite and missions. If you are a member, I hope to see you Sunday and if not, I encourage any to visit that day to share the story of your mission experience in disaster relief at the Servants Unite booth. Please let me know if I should expect you.

John McGuire