homeministriesfor youthmission to mississippi



April 2006 | Bay St. Louis, MIƒ_"
Armed with a youthful exuberance and  zeal to put their faith into action, a handful of junior high and high school students from Maranatha Chapel spent a week in a hurricane devastated region of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Making the slow crawl back to a bearable life,  these residents of these devasteated areas are still struggling to recapture even part of what they had before Katrina. For many, the stuggle  seems beyond hope. However, by the grace of God's mercy, thousands upon thousands of tireless relief workers have been coming from church and relief congregations all across the country. These volunteers have been faithfully working alongside the residents of this community and outlying areas to help  salvage anything that wasn't washed off the face of the earth last summer.



Junior High School Pastor Danny Ramos, along with a few other adult chaperones, turned our youth group loose to help feed the laborers, wash dishes, stock pantries and set their hands to any clean-up tasks that were within their grasp. The exhausted students slept well in their tented living quaters, knowing full well that many of the people they were feeding, serving and working alongside, have been going without even the most basic modern luxuries.
 



Maranatha is continuing to organize ways to provide ongoing service and support for the literally tens of thousands that are still without the basic necessities eight months after Katrina. The real worries are bearing in on these southern states once more as another hurricane season approaches.

Please continue to remember these displaced families in your prayers,  that God would continue to meet their needs with a steady stream of relief workers to help these neighbors find their lives once again.

In The Word Media April 27, 2006