Day 2 North Minneapolis Tornado Relief

It's really hard to know just what pictures to post from 75 pictures but I am going to try hard to post and tell the stories of what God did yesterday through the team from Urban Homeworks, North side Community Relief Team and NHC. We started at the office of Urban Homeworks where Jon gave us the big picture of Urban Homeworks and there mission which in a nut shell is stated below ...

Since 1995, Urban Homeworks has been working to perpetuate the hope of Jesus Christ by creating affordable housing. And as a result of the tornado, almost 60 organizations in North Minneapolis have banded together to create the North side Community Response Team. This team is dedicated to rebuilding the city in a way that helps in the short-term, as well as addressing long-term needs.

Husband and wife team Laurie and Ken serve together on their wedding anniversary

Yep, That's a piece of metal wrapped around that tree


Our next stop was for lunch while the other teams
took the chain saw's to work and
cut down some of this ....

Finally our day ended at Mark's home. A bit about Mark ... he is a young man who happens to be disabled and is married to Carol. When he came home today we were taking down his garage. While we were visiting he received a phone call from his wife who was at work. I overheard him say, "yep they are taking the garage down as we speak."

Mark's dad, Don and his mom, Ruth were at the house as well. When we asked how we might pray for the family Mark asked that we pray for his sister Jean and her two adopted children. It seems that Mark's parents were in town because Jean's husband had died suddenly of a heart attack while vacationing in Colorado. Mark asked that we pray for the family as they walk through the visitation and funeral today and tomorrow here in Minneapolis. We had a good time of prayer! The team was blessed as Mark served us by bringing Holly a cup of cold water, and then we saw Mark "roll up his sleaves so to speak, and  help the clean-up efforts. He was so grateful for all the work we did and the team was blessed to be able to meet Mark and his parents and show the love of Jesus to them through good deeds.

Mark and Laurie, What's going to work? Team Work!

One final highlight of the day, for me was when I was able to pull my Bible out of my bag and spend some time with Brandon from Urban Homeworks around the word. Brandon will be attending  North Central University this fall. We talked abit about the word and the importance of being in it daily. When he spoke about wanting to learn more about God but having a hard time understanding the word, I pointed him to John 16:12-15 and suggested that he pray that portion of scripture before reading the word and God would be faithful to honor the desire of his heart for wisdom and knowledge as he continued to read and study the word. Overall an amazingly productive day both physically and spiritually! Yea God!

Always remaining In His Arms, B