09.23.05 A SOUTH PARK YOU

Bored?  Go here to make a South Park version of yourself.

Here’s me.

Me singing.

Or recreate those most important to you.  Here’s Brian.

And Becky.

09.23.05 THANK YOU FROM FINDSHELTER.ORG

Thank you to the following websites for linking to or talking about FindShelter.org.  Thank you for spreading the word about us and making our job of finding sponsors for families displaced by hurricane Katrina (and now Rita) much easier:

1cubed.com
manhunt.com
biblicalrecorder.org
grassrootsmusic.com
itickets.com
projectrestore.org
deeperdevotion.com
breathecast.com
tollbooth.org
rocketownrecords.com
christianpost.com
sightmagazine.com.au
christiianactivities.com
growthtrac.com
wayf.wayfm.com
dunndailyrecord.com
orchardgroves.com
alternative103
worldmagblog.com
churchaliveag.org
ibsa.org
kinja.com/user/jboiser
namb.net
orlandosentinel.com
hawkenstein.blogspot.com
jdnews.com
pray.org
halifaxbaptist.org
cmcentral.com
campbell.edu
enlacemusical.com

09.23.05 FINDSHELTER.ORG UPDATE

We are now working with housing agencies given the task of finding homes for those still left in shelters after Katrina blew through Louisiana and Mississippi.  One such agency must find homes for 600 families.  We are hoping to take them all.  With hurricane Rita on her way to Texas and Louisiana shortly, the number of displaced families will grow tremendously literally overnight. 

We need your help.  Please tell pastors and other church and Christian organization leaders about FindShelter.org.  Urge them to go there and click on the sponsor link.  Once they do so they will be contacted quickly by a representative of FindShelter.org and matched with a family in need of virtually everything.  Sponsoring churches or groups are asked to supply ALL physical, mental and spiritual nurturing to their family for at least one year: clothe, feed, house, employ, counsel, medicate, pray etc.  They need everything an they need it for a long time.

More families were placed this morning and we have men in shelters across the ravaged areas finding more families who need total assistance.  We lack more churches and Christian organizations willing to adopt the growing number of homeless in the South.  Prayerfully consider your part in all this.  It’s NOT enough to pray when we could be the answer to someone’s prayer.

-Shaun
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09.23.05 HOME

We made it home.  Thanks for the prayers.

I still have family in the path of Rita.  Some of them have been leaving Houston for 24 hours now and have gone less than 100 miles.  No food.  No place to stop for gas and getting only slightly closer to safety.  Continue praying for those on the packed highways and back roads of Texas and for those who didn’t even bother trying to get out.

09.22.05 LIVE FROM THE HURRICANE

I’m in Texas.  This won’t be the most literate post.  We’re in a hurry.  I’m posting from Jake Smith’s laptop in a hotel in Tyler, Texas.  We played here last night and were supposed to play tonight in Waco.  Waco cancelled.

When we flew into Houston yesterday it took us 7.5 hours to get to Tyler (ususally 3 hours drive).  We were stuck in a swarm of loaded down cars evacuating South Texas.  With Waco cancelled we’re driving instead of flying to Nashville.  It’s twelve hours with little gas left in Texas.  Pray we make it.

Pray also for Jake and his band. They’re headed back to Louisiana and then getting out with wives, possessions and what not.  Crazy.

I’ll let you know how it all turns out.  Peace.

SG