This year has started out busy as usual! We closed the relief site in Bridge City, Texas and have been in touch with and working by phone with many congregations in the tornado stricken and fire damaged areas with the storms that passed through the Midwest a couple of weeks ago.
WHAT ARE WE DOING NOW... YOU ASK??
Glad you asked :-)
All of our coordinators are at home (although most are still working on DRT things, trying to make things better.....more organized....more efficient :-) just can't get 'em to stop :-) However we hope and pray they are getting some much needed and well deserved rest!
One thing we all are working on are articles for our next newsletter. I've been extremely lax at keeping up with the newsletters and have received many requests for them. So each coordinator is writing an article about the Bridge City Relief Effort from their perspective for the next issue. I'm looking forward to y'all getting a copy of it, we've got some wonderful coordinators doing extremely good work for the LORD!

Sid and Debbi Smith are the DRT cooks (excuse me Sid) Executive Chefs ;-) Believe me....they deserve that title.....the food is awesome! Anyway....when we are not at a disaster, Sid goes around speaking at congregations for DRT. He's been quite busy lately, so many of you have worked with us or have heard about us and are seeing how needed this ministry is, Praise GOD! GOD continues to bless the efforts of DRT and as congregations hear about us and want to know more, we send Sid to do a presentation. Sid does an excellent job with this...he's a natural speaker....he tells things in a very interesting way, totally holding your attention.....keeping you on your toes.....and has plenty of personal stories from the disaster sites that he likes to share with you. If your congregation is interested in a presentation.....please have your minister or one of the elders contact me at 937-308-2259 to schedule Sid for a presentation. Now is the time, he obviously won't be available during disasters to do this.

Mark and I have been in Melbourne, Florida this past week meeting with the DRT committee and the elders that oversee the work of DRT. I can't say enough about this wonderful congregation and the leadership here. We are SO blessed to have them as our overseeing eldership! Check out my facebook page for more comments :-)
Mark, Ashley and I (and Gizzy, Chloe' and Jewel ;-)) will be heading to Pepperdine to set up the DRT booth at the lectures on May 5-8. I will be speaking there on Friday, May 8 @ 8:30am. I'm not in the program--- so please look me up!! ;-) Come join us to hear the latest on disaster relief directly from the front lines as well as how you can help your own communities get through the smaller disasters.

The following is the Schedule of where the DRT exhibits and/or Speakers will be.
April 26 (am) Buna COC - Buna, TX- Sid Smith -
April 26 (pm) Kountze COC - Kountze, TX - Sid Smith
April 29 - West Houston COC - Houston, TX. - Sid Smith
May 1 - Heritage University - Sid Smith
May 3 (am) - Cox Blvd.COC - Sheffield, AL. - Sid Smith
May 3 (pm) - Moulton COC - Moulton, AL - Sid Smith
May 5 - 8 - Pepperdine University- Malibu, CA - Mark and Laura Cremeans
May 8 - 8:30 am - Pepperdine lecture- Laura Cremeans
June 2 - 7 -Florida Bible Camp(DRT WORK CAMP)(YOU)WE NEED WORKERS! :-)
DRT Coordinators--email for more details -mailto:-disasterrelief@hotmail.com
June 4 - 6 - Quest- Oklahoma Christian University- Laura Cremeans
July 2 - 4 - Lipscomb Lectures - Sid Smith
July 20 - 24 Blue Ridge Family Encampment
July 25 - 31 Tahoe Family Encampment
Sept. 4 - 6 - SonQuest - Orlando, Fl.
Sept. 27 - 30 - Harding Lectures

If you're attending any of these events-- stop by and say hi!! We'd love to see you!