A Day to Make Your Head Spin

I do not think more could have been crammed into this day. I left for Tampa at 8:00 a.m. to help Dr. Johnny Strickland with Network of Promise give out 450 boxes of food to the elderly living in the Tampa Housing Authority apartments. It is always rewarding to be involved in helping those lovely people.

On the drive to Tampa, I received a phone call from Pastor Kelly Lacy from North Carolina saying that he was at a school auction where they had 500 desks and 150 computers. He thought he had a good chance of getting them. Isn't that fantastic? What a great friend.

Missionary Bill Strickland from Honduras told me last week that I was on the cutting edge of where missions is going. He said that people want to personally get involved in missions, actually getting dirty for God. This was exactly what Pastor Lacy was doing, attending an auction to get supplies for missionaries. Bill Strickland also said that missionaries are thrilled that people are sending them things they desperately need. What a day to be alive.

All this is on top of having to go to Valdosta to pick up 150 computers there. Now here is where you come in. I desperately need some help financially for all the transportation costs. A semi to Valdosta costs $800 but going to North Carolina is going to take $2300. Help! I am finding out it is very expensive to be involved in missions. At least God has given us a warehouse free of charge. Many compassion ministries have to pay up to $12,000 a month just for warehousing. Isn't God good!

On the way home from Tampa, I received another phone call from the shipper who is providing a 40 foot container for Missionary Randy Herring from Honduras saying that the container arrived in Tampa today, that they will unload it from 6:00 to 9:00 in the morning and will then bring the container over to the warehouse for us to load it. They give us three hours to put in everything. So I went back to the warehouse and worked until 8:30 tonight getting everything for the container put up on the loading deck so we can save time in the morning.

As I said, it was a day to make your head spin, but that's what it is all about. Thank you so much for you interest and help.