The church along with several other churches in the Baton Rouge area are putting on a Carnival for the evacuees who are staying at the Red Cross shelter in the River Center on Saturday. Much of the last couple of days for me has been spent working with Emily, the Assistant Youth Director, and another youth worker in town on details for the Carnival. It is called the Carnival of Hope! Emily had aquired the blessings of many high level city administrators including the mayor of Baton Rouge. It will take place in a park located across the street from the shelter. It is estimated that there are 4000 people living in this shelter and that one third of them are children. These children have very little to do all day and we are hoping that this will allow them to just be kids for a little while and let them know that there is hope and that people care about them despite the horrors that they have lived through in the past couple of weeks. Check out the church website www.fpcbr.org for more information. Please pray that things come together and that these kids will feel loved and welcomed by the churches of Baton Rouge.
This afternoon we had some evacuees show up at the church in need of some help. More to come on this...
The family that I am staying with were on CNN tonight. More to come on this...
The brakes on the RV might be fixed by tomorrow! Which means all those supplies can go further in to people who are desperately in need!
