You Can Help

As many of you know, Jim from Smoke on the Water lives in the Galveston, area. I mentioned this a while back. He closed on a home recently, and now he has had to deal with hurricane Ike. He and his first mate Iris had to evacuate.

This morning I gave Val Prieto Jim’s cell number, and Val called to check up on him. He says his garage got a nice bath, but that the damage to the house is limited to some minor carpet stuff. Hooray for that. He and Iris will not be able to return to the house full-time for days or weeks. That’s bad. After Andrew, life was rough, but at least they let me sweat and moan in my own home.

Jim has an idea about renting an RV or camper or something. That will probably be hard, in the Houston area right now. If any of you have suggestions, fire away.

As always, prayer is indicated.

Speaking of prayer, here’s a good opportunity for you. Reader Ed knows some missionaries in southern India, in the state of Karnataka. They say persecution is on the rise:

Dear Friends,

We are writing in special request of prayer. Our State of Karnataka has been seeing an alarming rise in persecution in the last several months .Our current State government has declared that they will allow no churches to be built and have requested that police refrain from interfering in any church attacks. In the past two weeks 10 churches have been attacked, burned or vandalized. Three weeks ago one of our staff pastors was forced over on the road and roughed up by a group of radicals. This Sunday in our city, many churches, including ours, were scoped out by groups of men who are strategizing the attacks they hope to carry out in the next month. On Monday, Tim will be going with a group of pastors from our city to Bangalore. They will be meeting with the Minister of Human Rights for India. Please pray for Gods favor and power to be on them. Also pray for supernatural peace and strength for all of our pastors and congregations. Christ is the Rock on which we stand and in Him we put our trust!

I said I’d put the request on my blog. I know a lot of you will be happy to see it, and to lend your efforts in prayer.