CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES

I Know....I know.....You didn't think I was ever going to sit down and write in the blog again, did you?!?! :)

It's going to take awhile to get caught up. Things have been VERY busy for the DRT.

We are stationed in Barrett Junction, CA. We're working with the San Diego area churches of Christ following the recent wildfires.

We have set up a "tent city" area here in the back country. It is called the Churches of Christ Center (COCC). We are housing people who have been affected by the fires and need a place to stay. We're also providing over 1200 meals per week to the survivors of the fires here in this area.
We have a large distribution area where we provide supplies. We have volunteers going out to work with the families on their houses and lots and we have worship services here every Sunday. We've been having about 30-35 in attendance every Sunday. Another service we provide is showers and a laundry trailer. This has been a wonderful benefit to the community, they've had no electric or water and many are still staying in tents on their property.

Shirley Mansfield is in charge of registration. She has set up an awesome system and has everything on computer. Her husband Harry is in charge of making sure all of the generators are filled. (these are large generators that provide power to everything we have here as well as pumping in heat and air conditioning to the tents that people are staying in.) He makes sure our drink containers are always full in our dining tent as well as doing "a little bit of everything else" :) Mike Baumgartner works in the distribution tent and is doing a wonderful job of helping people with their daily needs as well as some occassional cooking. Marge Wood is our onsite bookkeeper as well as helping with meals, keeping the dining tent clean and supplied, washing towels from the kitchen and showers and many other things that are done "behind the scenes". Jimmy Nichols is in charge of taking the vounteer groups out to the job sites and keeping our trash emptied :) he is always keeping us laughing. He never has a negative comment and is a joy to everyone.

Tune back in for the update on our Christmas Party.