DISASTER RELIEF IN LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA MARCH 2021

Four adults and nine youth from BELIEVERS BAPTIST CHURCH Emory, Texas served in Lake Charles March 7-11, 2021.  This group had a mind to work and completed eight work orders in four days.  The work orders ranged from cutting trees and moving to the road, demolishing portable buildings while salvaging stored items, to mucking out two houses, to mucking out numerous rooms at Mount Olive Baptist Church.  During our time in Lake Charles we were able to share the gospel and pray with eight people.  During the evening the team met for a time of Bible Study were we discussed living out our identity as a follower of Christ.  Only God has the authority to give us our identity since He is our Creator and Owner.  We discussed Psalm 24:1, The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, The world, and those who dwell in it. We studied Ephesians chapter 1 and what God says is true about those who believe Him.  In this chapter, God says we are blessed with every spiritual blessing, chosen, adopted, beloved, redeemed, forgiven, and sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise.  When we start with God our lives have meaning, purpose and value.  When we allow self and the world to identify us, we are soon driven off the path of our true identity and suffer the fateful consequences.  Praises to God for the work He did in and through the team.