After writing the blog from yesterday evening (see below) so much has changed. As a Missions Pastor, I've trained and trained on the necessity to be flexible, but I must confess that I'm just about at the edge of my willingness to be flexible and fluid.
From the beginning of this trip up until now, the organization of the Salvation Army has been disasterous. They are highly incapable of making any type of decision and then executing the decision. Instead they change their minds.
I will avoid citing the countless examples. One of the most frustrating examples is our departure. We were told we would initally be here for 13 days...then it was moved to 11 days. Yesterday we thought we would be home for the weekend. In the team's mind we were going to be with our families by Saturday so we were thinking in that direction. Now the Salvation Army says we will probably be relocating to serve in Seabrook Texas. There is a lot of devastation in this area and the Georgia Baptist need some reinforcements. I'm excited about getting to help them but if I'm going to be going just to hang out until October 9th, I'm not going to be a happy camper.
All we know now is that we will be sleeping our final evening in this building and then we will be moving out tomorrow. We will either be coming home tomorrow or we will be driving south to the area near Galveston.
Thanks for your prayers during this mission and I ask you to continue to pray that God's will be done for this team. IF there is "mission" work to be done, then we all agree that we want to go. IF we are only going to please an organization then pray that they will let us return home.
I will not have computer access after tomorrow so this will be my final blog for the week. Be blessed my friends!
Ron
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