Working for Jesus

We got up ready to work. I went to the church office around 8:30, the time Pastor said he arrived. No one came until 9. Both he and the temporary secretary tried to find someone who needed help. We even called some churches in the nearby towns, but could only leave messages. I even called back to Sulpher, LA with no success. Perhaps someone will call back tomorrow. We were enlisted to help clean the mildew odor from the church entrance. Many things mildewed and molded badly due to the long period of high humidity and no electricity to run the air conditioners after the storm on September 24. We gathered Pine Sol cleaner and Windex for the windows and began. I had to get on a ladder to reach the ceiling with the cleaner using the brush from our motor home. I was able to reach it and, even though the spots were not removed, I think we retarded the mold. We also washed the large windows inside and out because mush debris of leaves and dirt was pasted to the outside glass. We were finished with most of the work by 12:30. While I finished up, Evelyn went to the coach to reheat the chicken breasts she had fried last night. She also heated some more of the squash we had brought. She seasons things very well so it is delicious. She had concocted a breading for the chicken breasts using corn meal and Emeril’s Italian Essence. What a talent the Lord has given me. After lunch, we needed a nap. The outlet we use at the church is sensitive and had broken the circuit twice before, once while she was preparing lunch. We knew we couldn’t sleep in the heat, so I went back and reset the breaker. I came back and turned on the AC which ran without a hitch. What a gracious Lord we have! We wakened and took a ride around photographing some of the destruction. We stopped at a Baptist church, inquiring as to whether they knew of anyone we could help. The secretary said the pastor might call us tomorrow. It has been nearly six weeks since the hurricane, so perhaps we are just too late and things have been restored. There are many blue tarps on the roofs, but people are either waiting for adjusters or roofers, things we are not skilled at doing. We drove up to a Flying J, thinking we would dump our RV when we leave the area (which may be tomorrow), but it had been devastated and no pumps of any kind were working. We spent the evening watching football and praying that we will find some work tomorrow. It is useless for us to hang around here with nothing to do, so we might just go on to the Valley. We don’t want to get there too soon, but it can’t be much hotter there.