Showing love

I am writing quickly as the girls are busy playing with the train set.

A few days ago I meet a lady through my freecycle group who was asking for things that could be donated to her family and friends who lost their houses in the fire. Several of us on freecycle replied. She wrote back saying the donations were appreciated but she was unable to make the 1+ hour trip down to Geelong. I e-mailed her back and said I didn't mind making the drive up to her with all the stuff.

So Tuesday I sent out a notice to our church and the freecycle group that they could drop items off at the church hall on Wednesday night.

Brandon and the kids came with me last night to the church hall. We were there from 7:30-9pm. Within that time people donated enough items to fill up three cars! Yikes (in a good way). So Friday my sister and I are going to drive our cars up with as many items as we can possibly stuff into our cars. I figured we would leave at nap time so that the kids can just sleep in the car (even Jolene will sleep in the car).

I have realized through this that there are many people willing to donate items but only a few that are free and able to drive them to where they need to go. Our own city council said it couldn't pay for the petrol to send things up (silly I know).

News on the camp. It has so far survived! By God's grace he kept it standing. According to the neighbours living next to the camp there up to 7 fire trucks protecting it at one point. This is very humbling for us as a church seeing as though some of those firefighters lost their homes in the fire. It was undeserved for us to keep our camp. Because it has been spared we are looking into using it as a refuge centre for those who have lost their homes. We might even get to go up and cook for them. Please pray for this opportunity. It would be a great way to show love to that community which has lost so much.