Fearless Prayer

The picture is of Fearless Mike. Meanwhile we all started praying...

Actually, we needed some tunes at one of the houses we were working at during our New Orleans missions trip, and Mike and I found a cassette karoke radio for 10 bucks at a thrift store. Such a deal. And such is the stuff of missions trips.

We first came to New Orleans Christmas 06 to help those who lost their homes after Hurricane Katrina. Since then NOAH, the Southern Baptist relief organization we work with, has helped out over 1600 families and homes. When we were taken to our first house to work in on Monday we arrived at... the same house we helped to clean out in '06. This was not organized by NOAH, just by God. And such is the stuff of missions trips.

Deborah, the owners daughter came out to see us yesterday. That was the most cool part of this missions trip. She told us that after we helped to strip the house down to the studs over three years ago, she and her mom hired a contractor to do the rebuild. He started the work, then took off with their savings (over $20,000). This became a common practice, as most of the people doing the hiring had little experience with contracts or contractors. Now NOAH is back helping them rebuild their house.

The way the rebuild works is this: NOAH through folks like us provides free labor. The homeowner has to provide the supplies. This makes for a slow process, but also it also keeps it from being a handout. The result has been between 400-500 people accepting Christ. And such is the stuff of missions trips.

I wonder if we prayed fearlessly all the time, like we do before and during missions trips, if this would be the stuff of life.

Dan

"Devote yourselves to prayer." Col 4:2