Day 39 - Blessings Abound
Greetings!
It has been a while since I have written and so much has happened since then. Last weekend I was blessed with 30 members from Roswell United Methodist Church in Georgia. The group was really amazing. It was split of about 13 adults and 17 kids all living together in the little volunteer house I am living in. From the time they arrived late Friday night to Monday morning when they left, they were such a blessing to me. They always invited me to eat with them during their meals and even took me out to eat with them on Saturday. But even beyond that, they had more volunteers then work they had planned and offered to work on the Project Reclaim projects. In a matter of two days, those who worked with me were able to put all three coats of paint on the entire first floor of the smiths house. It was amazing!... and they had a blast doing it. I never heard any of them complain... well that is except when they were making fun of me as their "slave driver," but they were great.
The next step in the Smith house is to prepare for the large group coming in the second week of March for spring break. We have 70+ volunteers coming in from Virginia Tech and App. State to help us finish most of the project. We have been working this week to gather a list of materials that we will need on site for the project including all of the materials or the deck that we will be adding onto Keri's house, next to the Smith House. Leah will be gone the first two days of the project so I will be overseeing the volunteers on site. It is both exciting and humbling to be overseeing some 40+ volunteers on out site, but I can't wait to see my family from Virginia Tech.
This weekend I am excited to join with my church family down here in Mississippi to reach out to the homeless in the area with our youthgroup. Our church has been gathering supplies and will be heading out into the streets of Gulfport and Biloxi to minister to the physical and spiritual needs of the homeless in the area. Please pray that we will proclaim the name of Christ to those in need here as well as the hearts of the youth in our church will really be changed for the glory of God!
I do want to mention that I am immensely blessed and thankful for your prayers. Every now and then I will get a note of a phone call from someone telling me they are praying for me and it has been such an encouragement. And I want to say that the prayers of the faithful have truly done a work here in Mississippi. I have had so many opportunities to share the love of Christ with others here and encourage them in the pursuit of Christ! My church here has really been a family to me and has a heart for Christ in all things. Also, in my work on Trinity, I have been offered a part time job in a civil engineering firm to work on the structural designs of the church for a couple weeks to help move the project along. It has been amazing to see God's blessing abound here. I have been able to support other fellow brothers and sisters in the ministry with the money I have been blessed with here especially in the struggling economy. I encourage everyone, in all circumstances to continue give to your churches and those in the ministry as now is most important of all with the present struggles as others seek answers to a troubled world. And all of this was made possible through your support and most importantly your prayers which I covet most of all. Continue to pray in authority that God would change hearts here and bring about healing in a hungry area.
For the Glory of God,
Erich Roscher
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It has been a while since I have written and so much has happened since then. Last weekend I was blessed with 30 members from Roswell United Methodist Church in Georgia. The group was really amazing. It was split of about 13 adults and 17 kids all living together in the little volunteer house I am living in. From the time they arrived late Friday night to Monday morning when they left, they were such a blessing to me. They always invited me to eat with them during their meals and even took me out to eat with them on Saturday. But even beyond that, they had more volunteers then work they had planned and offered to work on the Project Reclaim projects. In a matter of two days, those who worked with me were able to put all three coats of paint on the entire first floor of the smiths house. It was amazing!... and they had a blast doing it. I never heard any of them complain... well that is except when they were making fun of me as their "slave driver," but they were great.
The next step in the Smith house is to prepare for the large group coming in the second week of March for spring break. We have 70+ volunteers coming in from Virginia Tech and App. State to help us finish most of the project. We have been working this week to gather a list of materials that we will need on site for the project including all of the materials or the deck that we will be adding onto Keri's house, next to the Smith House. Leah will be gone the first two days of the project so I will be overseeing the volunteers on site. It is both exciting and humbling to be overseeing some 40+ volunteers on out site, but I can't wait to see my family from Virginia Tech.
This weekend I am excited to join with my church family down here in Mississippi to reach out to the homeless in the area with our youthgroup. Our church has been gathering supplies and will be heading out into the streets of Gulfport and Biloxi to minister to the physical and spiritual needs of the homeless in the area. Please pray that we will proclaim the name of Christ to those in need here as well as the hearts of the youth in our church will really be changed for the glory of God!
I do want to mention that I am immensely blessed and thankful for your prayers. Every now and then I will get a note of a phone call from someone telling me they are praying for me and it has been such an encouragement. And I want to say that the prayers of the faithful have truly done a work here in Mississippi. I have had so many opportunities to share the love of Christ with others here and encourage them in the pursuit of Christ! My church here has really been a family to me and has a heart for Christ in all things. Also, in my work on Trinity, I have been offered a part time job in a civil engineering firm to work on the structural designs of the church for a couple weeks to help move the project along. It has been amazing to see God's blessing abound here. I have been able to support other fellow brothers and sisters in the ministry with the money I have been blessed with here especially in the struggling economy. I encourage everyone, in all circumstances to continue give to your churches and those in the ministry as now is most important of all with the present struggles as others seek answers to a troubled world. And all of this was made possible through your support and most importantly your prayers which I covet most of all. Continue to pray in authority that God would change hearts here and bring about healing in a hungry area.
For the Glory of God,
Erich Roscher
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