Disaster Buckets to Bryan, TX

On Thursday, May 25 heavy storms moved through the Brazos Valley dumping torrential rain and spawn tornadoes. One tornado struck in Bryan Texas damaging 153 homes. In addition to the tornado flooding was experienced all around the city.

On Saturday, May 27 I received a request to take buckets to Bethel Lutheran Church in Bryan, TX.  We had just received supplies for our buckets, so I contacted our team to come to the church at 1:00 PM to assemble buckets. 

On Monday, we met again at 10:00 AM to Load the Trailer.

After Loading the trailer, we took 3 pickups and went to Home Depot to pick up our order of 480 empty buckets and lids that had just arrived.

We delivered 200 buckets to BethelLutheran in Bryan on Tuesday. Included in the load was the 1000 bucket we delivered in 2016. This is a major milestone for the Disaster Care Ministry. We have never delivered 1000 buckets in one year before. We could not deliver this many buckets without the assistance of LCMS Disaster Response and the Grants we receive from LCMS Domestic Development.

A fringe benefit for me was that I got to have lunch with my son, Matthew. Mathew is attending Texas A&M University. 

This is the seventh disaster we have responded to this year.With God's grace, we will be able to continue this work.