Update from Team 8

Well, so far our week is going well, except for the fact that my body is having trouble keeping up with the pace. Here's a little of what we've been through so far.

Sunday:
A.M. worship was a little different than usual. They set aside time for the four shepherds to lead an informative session on what's happening with the disaster relief effort. Here's what we were told:
1. A 5-person board has been set up here at Tammany Oaks to oversee their relief work. They have one employee, Bruce Cox, right now with the tentative plan to hire a secretary and another minister to handle follow-ups with their contacts.
2. They are in the process of setting up a separate 501-C corporation as a division of Tammany Oaks Church of Christ.
3. They made a point of telling the congregation that the relief efforts are being funded by specific disaster relief donations, not by the congregation's funds. They have collected +/- $500K in cash donations over and above donated supplies. +/-$300K has been spent or earmarked ($75K set aside for repairs to the building), and +/-$200K is in a bank account.
4. They are planning to develop a kitchen for the relief efforts to replace the makeshift facilities they have now.
5. They are receiving funding now from White's Ferry Road Church of Christ in West Monroe, La., as are the folks in Slidell (Hilltop).
6. They expressed a need to get the disaster relief efforts organized with the new warehouse distribution center in order to allow other ministries, which have been suffering, to use the building also.
7. The unfinished portion of the second floor will be developed into dorms once the three pairs of exterior stairs are installed to allow adequate emergency egress, per building codes. The stairs are fabricated, are in the galvanizing process, and are expected to be operational by mid-March.

Sunday afternoon, we went out to the warehouse to scope out our plans for working there this week. We're pouring the piers, setting the 6x6 columns, and framing the floor over the dorms (there's more to frame than what your crew did) to make that area larger.

Monday:
We visited the hilltop group in Slidell briefly. As you know they’re planning to move down to Chalmette.
We went down to Chalmette, saw the Church of Christ building there (much damage, but in the repair process), and visited the National Assoc. of Christian Churches disaster relief operations in the Wall-Mart parking lot. They have a large tent for distribution (pic #30), and another tent up as a "free store" and worship service area.
We visited a location everyone here refers to as the "hippie kitchen" down and across the street. That was interesting! They're a very different sort of people with a very "hippie" lifestyle and liberal political views, but they are doing a great job feeding very needy people and the folks here have made a good impression on them through their donations of excess items here that were badly needed there.
Next we drove through the 9th Ward. There are no words to write here that would do it justice (pic #61). I know you've seen it firsthand. To refer to it as something that resembles a "war zone", as I have stated in the past, just doesn't begin to do it justice. What are they ever going to do with this place? I don't think anyone has an answer to that right now, and so everyone is in limbo and either speechless, or complaining about nothing being done. It's really sad.
I had hoped to get to talk to Fred Franke when we visited Operation Nehemiah, but he was out when we were there. We did get a chance to walk all around and see the progress (pic #71). They are going to ship some of the supplies they've received up to the warehouse in order to free up their space for the restoration work and improvements. They seem to have their act together very well.

Monday afternoon and today (Tuesday) we worked at the warehouse installing the re-bar in the piers and framing upstairs. Hopefully we'll be pouring the concrete tomorrow. I've stressed that the support issues need to be dealt with a.s.a.p., so we've given that top priority.
I'm attaching a couple of pics, but I'll have a bunch for you when I return. I'll be in touch.

Because He Lives!
Mark Morris

Team 8 - On the way

Our team of 2, Mark Morris from Northland Church of Christ and Mark Kindberg from Westerville Christian left around 7:00 this morning. As of 6:30pm eastern they were leaving Cracker Barrel in Meridian Mississippi. That should put them in to Tammany Oaks around 8:30 central time. They'll be spending the week on construction of relief centers that will continue to support the volunteers we send down as well as thousands expected for spring break trips. They'll also be investigating new opportunities we have to work in the area.

See the schedule of spring break trips on the web site and previous blogs. We have lots of work to do and no shortage of places to work at. Lets fill those trips out!

Also, as of today, Servants Unite has an account and I've added the donations we've received so far. If you've been waiting to hear that to make a contribution to transportation money, you can rest assured there's a safe place for your donation to go :-)

John McGuire

Thank you Note from Ella and Brian

Just wanted to say hi and let you know how much Brian and I appreciate every thing you and the guys did.

Any time you are in our area stop by and have a po boy with us.

By chance do you have the names and addresses of the other guys. I would love to drop them a line.

The walls are coming along just fine. They have been sanded, primed, and textured. Hopefully paint will applied tomorrow.

Again, thank you so very much. You have no idea what it ment to us to have y'all help us so much. The laughs ment as much as the work you did.

Thanks A Million,
Ella and Brian

Everyone involved in this effort has helped make this happen, but special thanks from me to the guys who spent most of our January week in Louisiana drywalling Ella and Brian's house so they can get back home. This and a roof job are the first reconstruction that has been done through Tammany Oaks. With the completion of this job we've turned a corner from cleanup to reconstruction. It makes me very happy to know we have helped complete the cycle for one family to get them back home.

Lets fill out those spring break trips and GitRDone some more!

For use in your church bulletin or as appropriate

I wanted to encourage you to further promote the existence of this group to potential volunteers. I continue to find people who have wanted to go and help since the hurricane, but didn't know of a venue. God will bring them, but we have to let them know where to find us. The following is the text I wrote up about Servants Unite for our mission bulletin this month. It is also a half page insert in our Sunday bulletin and was emailed to our congregation list. Please use this to reach as many people as possible through similar channels:

Servants Unite is a multi-denominational, nonprofit, Christian organization uniting the churches of central Ohio and the surrounding region in disaster relief efforts. We have formed out of a group of over 200 people from over 30 churches in our area who came together to volunteer in Louisiana and Mississippi over the last 5 months. We are working to organize our church congregations and reach out to others in the region to continue to support ongoing relief efforts on the Gulf Coast and plan our response to the next need. With tornado season and the next hurricane season approaching in a few months, time is of the essence.

You can find up to date information on our web site at http://www.servantsunite.org. Our blog, http://servantsunite.blogspot.com, details our work with several updates per week. Be sure to check out the postings from the week of January 16th when we were there and follow the links on the 1/22 posting to all the pictures we captured of our experience. Our entire history is in the blog. We had a very successful week and helped many people who really needed to know that we and Christ still care about them. There is a huge demand still for people who can go and do that. Volunteers are the most sought after resource, even above food and cash, and will continue to be for months more. Your time working or financial support sending others down will have a huge impact on the lives and hearts of some very hurt, but hopeful people who are victims of this storm. For more information any time, email me at john@servantsunite.org or
call the home number at 614-523-3996. Thanks for your continued support!

Servants Unite Update Email

This was mailed out last night. If you are not on that list and wish to be, please send email to john@servantsunite.org.

It’s been a few weeks since we sent out an update and if you haven’t been following the blog you may be behind on activities with Servants Unite. Our organizational meeting went great. More than 20 people have come forward to continue helping to build this organization and new churches are being represented in our ranks all the time. We are in the process of incorporating as a nonprofit and continuing to build our ranks as a multidenominational Christian disaster relief ministry in the Ohio region.

23 people spent last week in Louisiana. We really had a productive week! Mucked 10 houses, tarpapered and framed in walls in a church in Chalmette, built an engineering plan for the partially complete disaster relief center and set about building footings to support the structure, drywalled a house in Slidell (including finishing), reorganized the entire "warehouse" space in Joy Fellowship church, helped the cook reorganize the facilities after being out for three weeks, repaired the men's showers, and various other odd jobs.

Tammany Oaks is quite short on volunteers for the month of February. Please ask your church leadership to send a request to your congregation's email list and mention the need during announcements, in the bulletin, or during services. We have a trip scheduled for February 4th with two participants so far. Let’s see if we can’t build that up and have another great week down there!

We’re moving the March 4 trip back a week and scheduling other tentative dates for spring break trips to align with area schools and colleges as well as a group from the University of Buffalo who are coming through our effort. Here’s the schedule:

• March 11-19 University of Buffalo plus any interested local additions
• March 18-25 OSU, CSCC, Hilliard, Grandview Heights, Bexley
• March 26-30 Dublin, New Albany, Johnstown Monroe, Olentangy, Marysville, Xenia
• April 8-15 Pickerington, Big Walnut, Westerville, Springboro, Reynoldsburg
• April 16-23 Gahanna, Columbus (with New Life youth group)

If there is any interest from those in the Worthington school district we can run a trip April 1-7.

You represent the members of dozens of churches in our area. Please get with your youth leaders about these trips to build up interest and participation. And of course we need all interested volunteers even if you aren't a student or youth leader :-)

We need to assign team leads to these trips. If you’ve been there, done that, and can take one of these weeks to lead a team, please let me know as soon as possible.

We also need to do some fundraising for these. Gas money can run around $2,000 for each of these trips or more if there are a lot of participants. We need at least $10,000 to cover those. I set up a convenient Paypal account to accept donations from the link on our web site or interested donors can get hold of me at my usual contact info below.

Be sure to check out our exploits last week on the blog entries below. As I experienced personally last week, the need continues to be immense, but still, there's a lot of visible progress. We are making a difference and shining the light of Christ in the gulf coast. God’s been using you all in remarkable ways. Thanks for all you’ve done for this effort so far and for all you continue to do!

John McGuire
www.ServantsUnite.org
614-523-3996 home
614-404-8610 cel

Team 7 Returns

Team 7 has returned from Louisiana! The bulk of the team returned to Spring Road Church of Christ in Westerville at 11:00 Saturday night 13 hours and 4 rest stops after leaving Mandeville. This, no kidding, has been an amazing group of people. I've grown so close to them over the past week that I'm already feeling withdrawl. Thank you to all who supported our run and continue to work to build this organization.

I have pictures from 4 of the participants including mine. You can see and download all of them at the following links:
John McGuire's Pics
Bill Niess' Pics
Kyle Schneider Pics
Sue Hayes Pics

Thanks for a great week guys!

John McGuire
Servants Unite!

Team 7 Friday Report

Oh, today was interesting. I have a new respect for demuckers. To think people come here (Sharon ;-) with the sole interest in cleaning out stinky, moldy, damp, disgusting houses filled with bugs, mud, frogs, cats, and other strange stuff. All the time I’ve spent here, I managed to avoid this task till today.
I can’t say how many times I nearly barfed. Full freezers that have been flooded and had no electricity for 4 months have a special kind of odor when they pop open. If you’ve been here, you have an idea.

We hit the house today with 17 people. The plan had been to split up and half the group would do a house a few blocks away, but that one fell through over legal decisions. That turned out to be part of His plan as it took all of us all day to clear out the house we did.

We removed all furniture and possessions from the house which were quickly grabbed up and dumped by the end loader working the neighborhood today.



This kept us from building another Mt. Kevin (that man flinches at nothing), but there really wasn’t room for all the stuff we pulled out if most of it hadn’t been taken away immediately.




We met Mr. Vincent Culotta who had lived on the street since his birth over 70 years ago. All his family lived on Culotta street which was first settled by his father when the Chalmette sugar cane plantations were broken up and sold. The street ends at the oil refinery on St. Bernard Avenue.
He and his wife Cybel have been collecting plants to decorate the front of their FEMA trailer in front of their house they paid to have gutted and have been treating for mold.

Fortunately for our crew they had cleaned up the bathroom and gotten it functional.





When we broke for lunch 6 of us walked the 5 blocks back to Paris Avenue to get a PoBoy at a trailer set up on the corner. Ray Gramilian came over to out table to see what we were doing and thank us for volunteering to come down to help them out. He says God is blessing his family so much in this tragedy.



This guy who’s lost two houses feels blessed that we came down, that he has a place to live (the condo of his son who just moved away), and that his best friend and neighbor who weathered the storm in their attic survived. They called him on their cell phone to tell him they could only see the point at the top of his roof. He says they told him they couldn’t have chopped their way through the roof to escape because of the coyotes and wild hogs that had perched there for high ground in the flooding.

He had such a positive attitude through the tears of telling that story. We were walking back to the house and one of the guys said, “well guess we don’t need more motivation than that!”

Our Dayton contingent headed for home today so we are all praying for their safe travels.

They drywall guys finished Miss Ella’s house today. Praises! She was so thrilled with their acceptance of Brian, her son, with his disabilities. He’s been helping them the last two days at her house. Kyle said they couldn’t have gotten the job done without him.




After a little plumbing and electrical work plus a coat of paint, they can move back into their house!








I got to talk with Janet Hines here tonight who put this whole program together. You all should know this woman. She is so energetic and so passionate about serving in this mission you can’t help but catch the bug.

As much as I have the bug, and the guys have gotten it working here this week, though we’re all ready to see our families again. We’re gassed, mostly packed, and heading out at 7:00 central tomorrow morning.

I’m amazed at how this works though. Several of this team’s members have talked about this person or that person who they’re going to ask to come down. That’s how this has to work. We have jobs and only so much time to take off to do this ministry, but we can continue to spread this movement to our church members and friends to keep help flowing in here.

Love to all our families! We’ll see you late tomorrow night!

John McGuire
Servants Unite!

Team 7 Thursday Report

There is no shortage of work down here folks. No kidding. This emptying the bathtub a drop at a time business takes a lot of work and a lot of people willing to be servants in this work. This team we have down here this week is incredible. Not just the Ohio people in my group, but everyone else here as well. This sounds trite and disingenuous because it is overused, but I am truly so impressed with these people.

Most of the Servants Unite group worked in Chalmette today rebuilding the Chalmette Church of Christ and demucking a church member's home. Thanks to the Delaware crew who cleaned out the church the week after Christmas it is actually under reconstruction. Framing is nearly complete in the auditorium for new classrooms. Walls have been put up and we spend the day finishing the framing and wrapping the auditorium portion of their building with tar paper to keep the weather out. Eventually, they plan to brick up the auditorium, tear out the rest of the building and rebuild it new.
It's inspiring to get to build some and not just finish the destruction. This church had been under water for weeks. The bricks were ripped out of the walls from the wave of water that breached the industrial canal levy where the barge landed in the lower 9th ward neighborhood. (see the reference and pics below)
Elder Charles Whitley who lives across the river in a neighborhood that was not flooded has been working diligently with the other elders to get the church rebuilt and get support for relief in their area in St. Bernard Parish. He reports that they have accounted for all of their 85 members, but one family, but that they believed them to be living in California with family.
One senior couple in their congregation was in their house during the storm. Spent several days under a highway overpass, several more in a school, a couple months in a shelter, and are now living on a cruise ship, which is much better.
25 people from the congregation met Sunday in the "Blue Room" in the front of the building where the studs were walled in with tarps.



The muckrakers left the church shortly after we arrived to work on a church member's house that they said was the worst they had seen. That's experience talking. Debris and mud was chest deep in some places. It took a heavily supplemented crew to complete the house by the end of the day. We'll miss that South Dayton Church of Christ crew who are heading home tomorrow.

Ella's house was back under reconstruction again today. Four of the New Life guys, Phil from Huntington, WV and Anthony from the DC area went back and put up almost all the rest of the drywall with one coat of spackling. They'll be going back to finish up tomorrow.

We have a group of kids here tonight from Branson Missouri. They are amazing. For devotional I asked them to do a skit they have put together. It's a mimed bit to a song about sharing the gospel with someone met on an airplane. They are REALLY good. Very inspiring to see kids who don't like the image some have of them and wish to be the next Christian leaders. They're a kewl bunch.

I wanted to tell you about them because they really made a disturbing day more inspiring than discouraging.

Since this is my second time here, I thought I'd seen everything and the shock was over. Unfortunately, I still hadn't seen the worst till today and it brings men to tears. Charles, the elder at the church where we worked today, took us down Perez Drive into the Lower 9th Ward where the levy broke in the Industrial canal inundating that neighborhood instantly and sending a wave down Perez drive that was still so powerful several miles away at the church. The first three blocks from the levy or so were completely wiped away, washed into neighboring streets.

This link leads to the pictures I took there today. The break in the levy isn't any wider than the length of the barge sitting on the school bus, but when it broke it was like when you push down on the side of an inflatable swimming pool; a sudden surge of water that wiped foundations clean and spread debris and whole houses miles away. One house near another levy break was dropped in the middle of a different street...It was a brick house....and the cement slab is still attached to the bottom of the house...in the middle of the wrong street. The power of the forces at work in this disaster is unfathomable.

I felt guilty touring "ground zero" with my camera snapping pictures and asking Charles lots of questions. This place where so many people died and lost everything they had and held dear isn't a tourist attraction. We see crass reporters on the TV all the time and I don't want to be one of those or sensationalize such an incredible tragedy. Those of us who have been here, though, are obligated to show, tell, and share what we know with those of you who read this so that you can get an inkling of the deapth and breadth of this as well as the personal nature of this disaster for each effected person who we speak to and do work for.

Brendan hung devo on me tonight which I kinda passed off to the kids with their skit, but the lesson of today, overall, is like Nehemia's experience restoring Jerusalem. This is a daunting task, but I'm happy to report progress is being made. People are starting to get their lives back and there is a positive tone that was only despair when I was here 3 months ago.

We can do so much for the people hurt by this disaster. We have been able to touch thousands of lives and been Christ to all those people. They tell us how grateful we are to come help and we can't know what it means to them. I suspect they are right. I keep reiterating, I wouldn't do any of this for a living, but this labor of love is a light yoke and working in the Kingdom of Christ is an amazing experience.

He Reigns!

John McGuire
Servants Unite!

Team 7 Wednesday Report

The New Life gang from Columbus got to clean out the family's house who has joined their congregation since relocating. This is the crew in front of the house while they were working on it.

This is what the flooded house looked like when the crew arrived.









To clean out the house, everything has to be removed down to the studs. Steve Mohr is working on the wall in this picture.








When they're done the studs are all exposed to be treated for the mold growing on them. In this house, the ceiling was crumbling from the moisture even though it hadn't flooded that high and it had to be removed too.

The "McGyver squad" then used their tyvec suits to tarp the roof of the neighbor's house. She has a FEMA trailer, but electric isn't restored to many of the houses in St. Bernard Parish. The guys got a work order in for her house to be tarped with the real thing and cleaned out.

That's a large stack by the way. The GitRDone board is now a pile as thick as 2 reems of paper by Brendan's desk. There is so much more to do than we are getting done and Gary from South Dayton voiced the same thing all of us who've come here have. "I don't want to go home when there's all this work to do. I wish I could stay here and do this full time." Amen brother and bless your servant's heart.

I worked in the new relief center today since the New Life guys who had been there had other obligations. Mike and Matt from Boston have risen as foremen of that job and are great guys to work with.
Along with Brian and Bill Neis, we spent the day cutting holes in the floor to poor deeper cement footings to support the weight of the volunteer quarters. Bill's hitting it with the jackhammer we rented. This place is a playground for guys who like tools!
Talk about kewl tools. This diamond Concrete Saw cuts rocks and throws fireworks off as a byproduct. Nifty gadget this one. Brian's weilding it here.

The South Dayton group lost Kevin who's been on their team all week demucking as he was showing his fellow churchmates the ropes. A new volunteer named Mandy and two others from New York (Westchester) joined them to clean out another house.

Plans for tomorrow is for the drywall guys plus two new Marines who showed up tonight to finish Miss Ella's drywall so Mike and Matt can do their finish carpentry thing on Friday. Most of the rest of the volunteers are working on a church in Calmette. We may also be cleaning the house of one of my fellow Chase employees.

We love you all and miss you. We're having a very good, very productive week here. Please pray for our continued strength and health as well as those here we are working to help out of the darkness. I see and feel it lifting. Becky, the church secretary, told me today that the Newsboys song Shine is the theme song of this recovery effort and as I roll the lyrics around in my head, they do fit really well. "Let them see good works in men! Let them glorify the Lord.... Shine"

Until tomorrow

John McGuire
Servants Unite!

Team 7 Tuesday Report

Every day we are here we are busier. We had teams on 4 projects today. Continuations of the three from Monday and a new one.
The Dayton crew plus Tom and Sue from Spring Road finished demucking the house they started yesterday. This shows the house from the outside and you can see the water line just at the tops of the windows.

This picture shows all the colors of mold growing in the house and the stuff jumbled around.





The crew removed all the stuff from the house and started tearing down the drywall.





When they were done, you can still see a lot of mold growing on the studs, but the soggy material is all out so the house can dry out. They also found a lot of insect damage from the house being damp for so long.

This picture shows Kevin topping off "Kevin's Mountain".





When they finished the first house today they moved on to another one where the homeowner had torn out a lot of the drywall himself and finished it up. They're living in a FEMA trailer in the driveway.
This is the whole crew except for Tom, who must have taken the picture.







Tim, Stevie, Enver, Gary Schubert, and I dropped off the drywall team to work at Joy Fellowship, a church in Slidell that is pushing a renewed effort to provide hot meals, food boxes, and all the rest of the stuff Tammany Oaks was distributing directly after the storm. Tammany Oaks has become a hub of volunteer labor and supplies that feeds into other churches like Joy. The building used to be a catfish restaurant, was very rustic, and quite kewl!
Though Joy closed for the day due to the heavy rain, the McMillen wives and some ladies from California working through a church in Covington (across the highway from Mandeville) packed up more food boxes than there was room to store.
The guys loaded in a fresh semi load and a half of goods while other California based helpers sorted gloves, coats, and other cold weather items to fill 200 orders the church has taken for assistance.
Only 10 have been filled, but after the complete reorganization of their inventory we did today they'll be able to get those out. None too soon, by the time we left today (I in shorts and a T-Shirt) the temperature had dropped into the 40s.
We had to wait on a last truck due at 6:00 so the guys (with talent) jammed on the great instruments and sound system the church had in place.



The drywall crew working on Miss Ella's house made massive progress, though we still don't have enough drywall.
They are taking tomorrow away from that job to demuck the home of a new church member who relocated to Columbus and will finish the drywall on Thursday.

The warehouse construction crew was hard at it again today building additional supporting columns and cutting holes in the cement for new footers to support the growing volunteer residence. I'm going on that job tomorrow so I'll get some up to date pictures.

Good night for now. We miss you all, but we're basking in the glory of working in God's kingdom for this week. This is an incredible team He's put together I can't get enough of any of the people on this trip and find it amazing how well we work together, how jocular everyone is with each other, and what amazing, loving people these volunteers are. You who have loved ones on this trip should be very proud of them and their commitment to work here. They are amazing.

John McGuire
Servants Unite!

Team 7 Monday Report

Everybody had a good full day today. Some joined the Dayton contingent demucking houses in Chalmette. They report it is still a ghost town. Street after Street of unattended houses that have been flooded up to the roof. They built “Kevin’s Mountain” (pic to follow) on the narrow front yard of the one they were clearing today next to the resident’s FEMA trailer. Named so because Kevin was in charge of carting wheelbarrows of soggy, moldy stuff out onto the pile. He built up high using improvised ramps (doors) to keep from overstepping the property.

We had a crew of 10 working for “Miss Ella” and her son Brian. She stayed with friends in Dallas for the Hurricane and couldn’t come home to Slidell till three weeks after the storm. She walked into her house and went immediately back out again under her carport crying. A marine put his hand on her shoulder and asked what she needed them to do. He gave her an hour or so to go through the house that had flooded 3ft deep to get what she wanted to keep and then his men stripped the place of everything under the 4ft drywall seam.
We got the pleasure of meeting her at Home Depot with a Penske to haul her drywall, insulation, base cabinets, and other supplies home to start rebuilding. Home Depot… you don’t want to have to go there… three trips…
Overall someone was there or en-route all day where it takes 2hrs minimum to get things like drywall and shingles. Hopefully by tomorrow, with help from our new friend Anthony Ongyod from Annapolis Maryland there will be drywall up and a first coat of mud on the walls (the good kind ;-)










I also wanted to share some pictures with you of Ella’s neighborhood. The initial piles of debris that were as tall as the houses have been removed there, though Brendan tells me that isn’t the case closer to the lake. Many people on her street have trailers plumbed into their house systems to live in while they rebuild and PODs sitting in the driveway for storage.

Tim from New Life, who’s always up early was at the back in the “kitchen” frying sausage for our breakfast for Karen, the full time cook. Since she just returned yesterday after a few weeks sick, she had a lot of reorganizing to do and Tim stayed with her the whole day helping to take care of that need. Tim’s the man!

The rest of the volunteers worked at the new warehouse today building the new volunteer accommodations into the end of the warehouse. They are enhancing the supporting structure of the dorm section and hoping to put up some drywall there this week. Two of the guys in the picture are Mike and Matt from Boston (really true accent these two!)

This effort really needs a couple of skilled guys to spend a week or two down here. There are three electrical panels to be built out and certified. Three zones of HVAC that need installed, and a lot of plumbing work to do in the kitchen and bath areas of the new relief center. Spread the word around to anyone you know and anyone they know that meeting this need is becoming a critical factor in the effectiveness that this great group of people here can put forth.

So I started this at lights out and was out to get a power cord 15 minutes later and I found evidence we have resolved that intolerance issue that created the snoring and non-snoring sections ;-) The entire crew must be asleep and happily sawing logs from the sound of it.

God bless you all for our support and Lord please bless those we are serving in your name. Amen.

John McGuire
Servants Unite!