God is in the House

As I stated in the intro, OAKS Global responds to needs outside the 30 mile radius of Christ The Rock Community Church. In this case this family lives right outside that mile line.

It was in October of 2007 when a request to help this family of 6 who lived in a mobile home that seemed to have a re-occurring rat problem. At that time the young mother was 7 1/2 months pregnant with their 5th child, unable to work and the father was having some health problems that rendered him unable to work as well.

A request for some assistant to evaluate the cause was sent out to the vast and growing list of OAKS volunteers. As always an OAKS volunteer team went out to investigate and to minister to this couple. Several things came out of this initial visit such as the need for food for the family, countless repairs to the mobile home, general clean-up around the exterior of the home and to show them that God is always waiting to be welcomed in.

Their situation was already in the hands of County case workers so their names were given to some local organizations and corporations to see what additional assistant could occur. From there not only OAKS came to their aid, a group of employees from Kimberly-Clark Corp. took them on as their Thanksgiving and Christmas family. They blessed the family with food for both Holidays and gifts for the entire family for Christmas. Some members of the OAKS Team made weekly food delivery and ministry. The family began attending Church Services, God was moving in them in a big way. Just seeing how total strangers came along side them gave them reason to praise God. So you see...God is in the house!

Once the structural assessment was complete it was brought to the OAKS Task Team assigned to them through CTR. An effort to gain funding for a newer mobile home began and it was decided that an alternate living arrangement needed to be found as soon as possible. The new baby was now here so all the more reason for the urgency. I was able to speak to a local realtor who happened to have a suitable place for them. I know God orchestrated that as well.

On one of the coldest weekends in this Wisconsin winter another OAKS Team gathered to assist with the move. They got the move made in just a few hours. On that day and many days since people who have heard the story have been moved buy just knowing that there are people who do come along side those in need. There have been many opportunities to be a witness for God.

Were we are today with this is that there is a mobile home available to be moved onto the property, the cost for the home and the transport of it are above what was gathered but we are not letting that get in the way of moving forward because we serve a generous God and we know that all things are possible.

Psalm 145:16 You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing.