Miss Marie's Home and More....

It won't be long and Miss Marie will be in her home. We are almost ready with Hai's home as well.
When it gets this close each team that comes in wants to be here for that official day to come. Just knowing that we are baby steps away is very exciting. Miss Marie has been waiting for several months but has not missed a night sleeping in her home since the storm. She refused leave and was steadfast in her desire to not leave the home here father built in the 40's. There is a bathroom to texture and paint, cabinets to set in the kitchen and bathroom, flooring for the kitchen, bath, two doors to be hung and some work that needs to happen on both porches. Then we will either paint or reside her home... more to come on that.

Miss Hai's home needs the bathroom sheetrock finished, primed, painted and her siding completed. When that is done she and her 5 children can move back home!

We were able to bless many people on Friday and yesterday again! We are needing to move out supplies from our warehouse to the smaller unit right next door to us over the next few weeks so while we are working on homes we also need to accomplish that! With that being said, we had to downsize some of the products such and Vitamin water, cases of coffee, a gaylord(super-sized box)full of shampoo, soap and toothpaste. We took two large loads down to Galveston, pulled up at our favorite outreach spot on the corner of Broadway and 51's and each day it only took about 1/2 hour and it was gone. We always cause a bit of a traffic jam but talk about blessing people in a big way... FREE Stuff... Amazing! Yesterday we also took three pallets of excess light fixtures to Light House Ministries... the people in San Leon will be hugely blessed by these lights. We kept enough for what our needs are so it was our pleasure to pass that donation on to them.

I know I have mentioned on the blog in the past to watch Susan's blog for day-to-day updates on what we are doing.. She and Monty have connected with the San Leon Community Church and will not be keeping current on the jobs that Mercy Response are doing so I am in the process of having www.mercyresponse.com website updated in order to keep you all more current on what happening. We have made a solid commitment to the victims of Ike and encourage all of you to stay tuned!

God Bless you and thank you all for continued prayer!