Sunday, Sunday
Well...church today was quite good. The atmosphere (I'm sure it had something to do with our shared experiences watching the Katrina catastrophe) was somehow different in a good way. The sermon was excellent.
We had two groups of people at church who had evacuated Louisiana. In the early service, one of our church members had her two nieces with her who were from New Orleans. In the second service, we had a whole family from Slidell, Louisiana. The mother of this family was an in-home care nurse. They had brought with them the mentally challenged individual who was the nurse's charge. Seeing those folks in church today was quite moving. Knowing that there were real people, and not some Hollywood characters, involved in this tragedy made all the difference.
The Griffin Housing Authority has opened up some vacant apartments to house evacuees. Also, the Flint River Baptist Association, of which FBC is a part, is housing about 200-300 people at the campground that the Association operates. The child evacuees are going to be going to Beaver Brook Elementary in Griffin, where one of our church members is the principal. The principal and others are going to meet the approximately 100 kids tomorrow and do some initial paperwork, etc. and give them their school bags.
I gathered some clothes to donate. (It was more clothes than one person should keep and never wear.) Our local Red Cross chapter, headquartered here in Griffin, has opened up an old Ace Hardware store in town to collect clothes and other necessities to distribute to the people who are now living in Griffin. They're also collecting items for Alexandria, Louisiana, which Griffin has "adopted" during the recovery/rebuilding efforts. I'm sure that relationship with Alexandria will be a long-standing one if the estimates for recovery time are even half accurate.
On a lighter note, I took this fun linguistics test online.
We had two groups of people at church who had evacuated Louisiana. In the early service, one of our church members had her two nieces with her who were from New Orleans. In the second service, we had a whole family from Slidell, Louisiana. The mother of this family was an in-home care nurse. They had brought with them the mentally challenged individual who was the nurse's charge. Seeing those folks in church today was quite moving. Knowing that there were real people, and not some Hollywood characters, involved in this tragedy made all the difference.
The Griffin Housing Authority has opened up some vacant apartments to house evacuees. Also, the Flint River Baptist Association, of which FBC is a part, is housing about 200-300 people at the campground that the Association operates. The child evacuees are going to be going to Beaver Brook Elementary in Griffin, where one of our church members is the principal. The principal and others are going to meet the approximately 100 kids tomorrow and do some initial paperwork, etc. and give them their school bags.
I gathered some clothes to donate. (It was more clothes than one person should keep and never wear.) Our local Red Cross chapter, headquartered here in Griffin, has opened up an old Ace Hardware store in town to collect clothes and other necessities to distribute to the people who are now living in Griffin. They're also collecting items for Alexandria, Louisiana, which Griffin has "adopted" during the recovery/rebuilding efforts. I'm sure that relationship with Alexandria will be a long-standing one if the estimates for recovery time are even half accurate.
On a lighter note, I took this fun linguistics test online.
Your Linguistic Profile: |
70% General American English |
30% Dixie |
0% Midwestern |
0% Upper Midwestern |
0% Yankee |
posted by Marty at 6:06 PM
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I speak 65% general and 35% Dixie.
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