An Urgent Call for Believers in the Southeastern US to Help Today!

In an effort to utilize this blogging influence for the gospel, I wanted to issue a very brief but urgent call for Christians in the southeast US.

This morning, while at the motel here in Pine Mountain, GA, I had breakfast with a dozen evacuees from the Mississippi and Louisianna area. Evidently, Sunday night, this was the only motel available for miles around. Is it any mystery then that God would have me, a local, just walk in and get a room instantly? God put me here to help.

As it turns out, a couple of families here lost everything. They've heard through friends that the slab is all that's left. How wierd do I feel then that the house I just moved out of yesterday is now sitting empty? So I called my buddy Alan in the area where I'm moving today. He's got an empty house he can't move into yet. So he offered to whoever needed it. That said, it appears at present that two families will be following my truck up to Athens to move into the house. Here's a grand opportunity to serve these folks like Christ served us.

So here's the urgent call. Take a lunch break and head over to the closest hotel or motel and knock on doors, or walk up and tell the front desk you want to help. This is the time to practice biblical hospitality - ministering to strangers with the services of your home and personal resources. Open your homes, invite them in, feed them and bed them. Take the family out to the nearest hotel or motel after dinner. Or better yet, hang out around these places during dinner and take them home with you!

These folks here are paying $60 a night! And they expect to be here for another week or two. They are going into credit card debt for a bed, shower, and food for Lord knows how long. They're having to eat out every single meal. Many of them have children. The church can help with this. This is the hour to glorify God by being salt and light. Let's don't let them go into debt here and then have to go back home to whatever else is left.

Heed the call brothers and sisters in the south! This is God's timing.