Survey Pictures from Iowa

I was able to make arrangements this week at the NACC conference with Antioch Christian Church in Cedar Rapids to host our July 27 team. We currently have a dozen people committed to go and another 6-10 maybes. We will be augmenting the work the congregation has already been doing in their community to help their neighbors recover from the historic flooding all along the region's rivers. To join this team, please email me or call Melinda McGuire at 614-523-3996, our home phone.

Hilltop Rescue will be setting up camp a couple hours downstream in Burlington, Iowa. Mark Robbins who we know from working in Bayou LaBatre is in that area now. While Burlington had little flooding, many smaller towns near by, both in Iowa and across the river in Illinois have been flooded. Some are still inaccessible. They have found this to be a good central point with a partner church active already in the relief effort.

This is a slow motion, moving disaster. As the wave has flowed downstream, more areas have flooded and continue to flood. Volunteers will be needed over the coming months to work along behind the damage to clean out houses and affect repairs as far as the damage eventually goes.

National media has already dropped this story for the most part. Mark sent out pictures this morning, however, from the area where he has been surveying this week and I'm including them in this blog entry for your information.

More to come as this effort continues.

Servants Unite!

John McGuire