Sunday, November 20, 2005

NEW ORLEANS!


Hey guys,
I have about 15 minutes on the internet, but I needed to update everyone before I get back to DC. I have been working on one of 34 American Red Cross emergency response vehicles serving food. It looks like an ambulance but it has a food serving window where we hand out hot meals and water. Several locations in New Orleans are without power and running water. People have nowhere to live, more or less, cook and eat. The kitchen I work out of served it's 1,000,000 meal yesterday. This is the first time in Red Cross history that a kitchen has served this many meals. The Red Cross borrowed 300 million dollars this past week to cover the insane expenses they are aquiring. Today is the first day I've had off and I got to check my email, and see a picture of my new nephew!!!!!!! That's right PJ had a C-section on Wednesday and has a beautiful baby boy. Alex Jedidiah, Jed, is the newest member of my family and we are all happy he's here. I'll be glad to take a hot shower when I get back to DC, but in the meantime I'll be saving the world and that makes it worth it. Give a shout out to David if you see him. He's in the Little Rock area. Can't wait until Christmas, I miss you guys and want to hear everything that's going on with you. Props to Arkansas, for providing all the Southern Baptists (about 20 new ones a week) that come on down to Louisiana and make 20,000 meals a day at 3am. REPRESENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 comments:

Leah Billings said...

Yea! It's good to hear from you. I can't wait till Christmas break either. You'll have to come to LR so we can all catch up.

Elizabeth Spann said...

Awww.... Jed's stinkin' cute. He's got that Devor nose! Can't deny it.
Glad to hear you're still truckin' down there. I can't wait to see you!! Come home soon!
I haven't seen David yet, but I talked to him last night. Perhaps we shall hang out soon. Love you!