Here Comes the Big One!
Posted by: David Bunch
I'm writing to you now from the top secret super secure hurricane headquaters of the ninetyand nine Southern command. Okay, actually I'm on my parents computer taking advantage of the precious final hours before Hurricane Katrina and what will probably be days without power. My wife, niece, and I could have ridden this one out at home, but there is something comforting about going to Mom and Dad's house during a crisis!
We're in Baton Rouge, and if everything goes as forecasted, we'll get tropical storm force winds starting tomorrow (Monday) with gusts up to 70 mph (considered hurricane strength). We solicit your prayers, but especially prayer is needed for the New Orleans area. The will get the full forecasted 165 mph hurricane with storm surges up to 20 feet. To place that in perspective, we just heard an official say that if you lived in a 2 story house, that would not be high enough to get you above the rising waters. This is primarily due to the fact that New Orleans is below sea level.
For those of you who have met lots of South LA folks thru quizzing, Youth Congress, etc., when we say New Orleans we mean Kenner, Metairie, Slidell, LaPlace, etc. There are millions of precious people in these areas and of course many brothers and sisters in Christ. Most will have evacuated at this point, but many will return to absolutely nothing. Please pray!
The words to an old dc Talk song keep going thru my mind:
YOU ride the storm
Endure the pain
YOU comfort me in my hurricane
And I'll never be alone again
(From Minds Eye)
We will get to trust God thru a literal hurricane in the next 24 hours.
We take comfort in the fact that Christ looked at the storm the disciples faced in the New Testament and addressed it as "Peace". HE said, "Peace, be still". God looks at chaos and calls it peace.
And that's enough to give me peace.
I'm writing to you now from the top secret super secure hurricane headquaters of the ninetyand nine Southern command. Okay, actually I'm on my parents computer taking advantage of the precious final hours before Hurricane Katrina and what will probably be days without power. My wife, niece, and I could have ridden this one out at home, but there is something comforting about going to Mom and Dad's house during a crisis!
We're in Baton Rouge, and if everything goes as forecasted, we'll get tropical storm force winds starting tomorrow (Monday) with gusts up to 70 mph (considered hurricane strength). We solicit your prayers, but especially prayer is needed for the New Orleans area. The will get the full forecasted 165 mph hurricane with storm surges up to 20 feet. To place that in perspective, we just heard an official say that if you lived in a 2 story house, that would not be high enough to get you above the rising waters. This is primarily due to the fact that New Orleans is below sea level.
For those of you who have met lots of South LA folks thru quizzing, Youth Congress, etc., when we say New Orleans we mean Kenner, Metairie, Slidell, LaPlace, etc. There are millions of precious people in these areas and of course many brothers and sisters in Christ. Most will have evacuated at this point, but many will return to absolutely nothing. Please pray!
The words to an old dc Talk song keep going thru my mind:
YOU ride the storm
Endure the pain
YOU comfort me in my hurricane
And I'll never be alone again
(From Minds Eye)
We will get to trust God thru a literal hurricane in the next 24 hours.
We take comfort in the fact that Christ looked at the storm the disciples faced in the New Testament and addressed it as "Peace". HE said, "Peace, be still". God looks at chaos and calls it peace.
And that's enough to give me peace.
Hey Hurricane Quieter!! How are you? Did you survive?
By the way, I don't know if you noticed, but you made the Favorite Young Preachers List on the Survey from last week.
Unless there's ANOTHER Bunch out there!
Prayed for ya. Hope all is well.
Posted by
Kris |
Tue Aug 30, 07:52:00 AM 2005