Greetings!
Well, I know some of you are wondering why we haven’t blogged in awhile. I guess it is my fault. I should have been keeping you up to date on the summer happenings, but things have been so hectic around here we just haven’t had the time to do it. So, I will try my best to update you on the latest happenings.
The summer Torch Trips were excellent and each group had Mark Connell and Joe Merillat to help them plan each trip. Tim was busy most of the summer in Chalmette running groups at Hilltop Rescue Disaster Relief Camp. The volunteers came by the hundreds during the summer and with Tim and his team of leaders, Hilltop Volunteers demucked 1,200 homes.
Tim and Gayle were in Honduras at the end of June to remove Tattoos. On that trip, Tim was able to finally get the paperwork for the Children’s home to be officially opened. Casa de Esperanza opened the end of June and is currently caring for 5 little boys. They are about to receive more soon. A special thank you to Karen and Jen for caring for these special little souls. The boys are a handful but they manage to give them the love they have never known before. Tim and Gayle returned again August 22-31, and removed tattoos mostly in San Pedro Sula. Tim had meeting after meeting with the governmental agencies in Honduras where he talked to the New Government to get them to help with more humanitarian aid for their people.
Tim left Honduras to go straight to Orlando to be at Sonquest to talk to people about volunteering in New Orleans. Tim has been quite busy these past few months. He gets up at 5am and comes home at 10pm. The hour and a half drive one way is tiresome but he does it daily morning and night. Sometimes he is so busy and the traffic down to Chalmette is so bad that he occasionally doesn’t have the energy to make the drive home and stays in a FEMA trailer over night to lead devos in the morning and at night. Over 3,800 volunteers have driven from 48 states to help the victims of Katrina, It seems no matter how hard you work, there is a bigger mound to accomplish each day. From now until the end of this year, Hilltop will focus on having three work camps, Oct., Nov. and Dec., while simultaneously taking care of the pressing Honduras matters. Also he is helping to set up the first; Church of Christ First Response Team, for future disasters, For the next three months Tim and the fearless group he is working with, Brendan Hendrix, Lana Cagle, Janet Hines and others, have been asked to head up the demucking of the rest of the elderly and disabled in St. Bernard Parish. 800 plus homes, what a task!!!! Pray for God to give him wisdom and strength to get the job done, Yesterday, he finally got a day off and took our boys fishing. The water was rough and it was rainy but the boys didn’t care. They were just happy to be with their dad.
To view more exciting details, click on these links:
www.hilltoprescue.org
www.calledandcompelled.blogspot.com
http://www.torchmissionshonduras.blogspot.com/
The summer Torch Trips were excellent and each group had Mark Connell and Joe Merillat to help them plan each trip. Tim was busy most of the summer in Chalmette running groups at Hilltop Rescue Disaster Relief Camp. The volunteers came by the hundreds during the summer and with Tim and his team of leaders, Hilltop Volunteers demucked 1,200 homes.
Tim and Gayle were in Honduras at the end of June to remove Tattoos. On that trip, Tim was able to finally get the paperwork for the Children’s home to be officially opened. Casa de Esperanza opened the end of June and is currently caring for 5 little boys. They are about to receive more soon. A special thank you to Karen and Jen for caring for these special little souls. The boys are a handful but they manage to give them the love they have never known before. Tim and Gayle returned again August 22-31, and removed tattoos mostly in San Pedro Sula. Tim had meeting after meeting with the governmental agencies in Honduras where he talked to the New Government to get them to help with more humanitarian aid for their people.
Tim left Honduras to go straight to Orlando to be at Sonquest to talk to people about volunteering in New Orleans. Tim has been quite busy these past few months. He gets up at 5am and comes home at 10pm. The hour and a half drive one way is tiresome but he does it daily morning and night. Sometimes he is so busy and the traffic down to Chalmette is so bad that he occasionally doesn’t have the energy to make the drive home and stays in a FEMA trailer over night to lead devos in the morning and at night. Over 3,800 volunteers have driven from 48 states to help the victims of Katrina, It seems no matter how hard you work, there is a bigger mound to accomplish each day. From now until the end of this year, Hilltop will focus on having three work camps, Oct., Nov. and Dec., while simultaneously taking care of the pressing Honduras matters. Also he is helping to set up the first; Church of Christ First Response Team, for future disasters, For the next three months Tim and the fearless group he is working with, Brendan Hendrix, Lana Cagle, Janet Hines and others, have been asked to head up the demucking of the rest of the elderly and disabled in St. Bernard Parish. 800 plus homes, what a task!!!! Pray for God to give him wisdom and strength to get the job done, Yesterday, he finally got a day off and took our boys fishing. The water was rough and it was rainy but the boys didn’t care. They were just happy to be with their dad.
To view more exciting details, click on these links:
www.hilltoprescue.org
www.calledandcompelled.blogspot.com
http://www.torchmissionshonduras.blogspot.com/
posted by Hines Family at 3:45 PM
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