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We have had an interesting week. My friend Cari & I took a day to work on our Sunday School classroom. The next day, Friday, was dedicated to putting some partially finishing touches on the youth/ everything else under the sun room. That is a whole other issue that I will address only briefly...The youth meet in a room at Salem that is supposed to be just for the youth. Well, the Women's Circle, the Lion's Club, OASIS (senior adults), and several other groups also meet in the "youth room". So, the new paint job was done for the "youth room" in colors that the older generation approved. Cari & I cleaned, touched up the paint, and arranged the tables & chairs. Took us 6 hours...

Then came Team Impact... An amazing couple of guys!! There are 22 men who are a part of Team Impact, but they only sent us 2. They broke baseball bats, both wooden & aluminum. They crushed tin cans with their bare hands. One of the men rolled up a skillet like a burrito. The other ripped phone books in half. The crowds grew each night they were here. (Friday -Sunday) Finally Sunday night rolled around. After amazing the crowd with what they could bend, 1/2 inch thick cold rolled steel bars for example, they took a 300-400 lb telephone pole. And bench pressed it. Then one man picked the pole up to his waist, rolled it up to his chest and finally pressed it up over his head! YIKES!!! The love they have for our Lord just poured out of them. Many decisions were made over the 3 nights. Praising God for how He just draws people back to him. We even had a Muslim attend the first night. While I am not aware if he ever came back, the Gospel was spoken loud & clear. Sunday night, our next door neighbor came with us. Please pray for Sara. She is Jewish, but she also has books about Zen, Buddhism, and other religions lining her bookshelf.

After Team Impact, came the phone call I really didn't want to hear. On Tuesday afternoon, Michael called to tell me to prepare for a hurricane. Hanna has seemed to become a bit more disorganized and she has weakened back to a tropical storm. However, school is out tomorrow so shelters can open. Hurricane Ike is more of a concern for us. There is the possibility that the base will order an evacuation. We will be keeping an eye on things and I will try to update as I can. Anyway, we have our food, water, gas & enough propane to fire up the grill for a few days.

Yesterday and today, Cari & I have prepared for a hurricane as well as tried to finish painting our classroom. We now have a coat of white paint on 3 walls and a very pretty yellow on the 4th wall. I think we need to do another coat of the white though.

So that is our picture-less update. I will post pictures once I get my computer back. The girls are watching Star Wars again...