Disaster Relief: Hurricanes Katrina, Rita & Wilma

While singing to the evacuees in the Astrodome, we met precious Cynthia, who lost her home in New Orleans. She is a 53 year old retired military woman whose daughter is presently in the armed forces in Iraq.

Cynthia was stranded on her roof for 2 days with her granddaughter, then they were picked up by a boat and dropped on a bridge on the I-10, where they spent the next two days without food or water. Finally, a bus picked them up and took them to the Astrodome.

When we sang for her she joined in with us with her beautiful voice. After singing Amazing Grace together, she broke down in tears, letting it all out with sobbing from the depths of her soul. I held her in my arms and told her, “It’s ok to cry.” She kept saying, “I just want to go home….” I told her, “I’m from New Orleans too, and we all want to go home, but Jesus has a better home for us, and really this world is not our home…..we’re just a passin’ through!” After sharing some passages from the Bible on that subject we sang her John 14. “In my Father’s house are many mansions…” We left her with the Activated magazine, titled, “New beginnings.”

Like so many others, her home was completely destroyed by hurricane Katrina, so she really can’t go home. It is very hard for people to adjust to the aftershocks of what has happened. Thank God we can help by giving them the water of God’s Word!