A special evening

We attended the Hackleburg High School graduation ceremony tonight.  Pastor Clint’s son Winn was salutatorian of his class.  We’ve had the pleasure of working with this young man throughout the week and were thrilled to be able to celebrate his graduation with him.

 

Since the tornado destroyed their schools as you can see in the background of the photo, they have been meeting in the Baptist Church in town.  They were offered the use of another area high school’s gymnasium but the class opted to hold the ceremony on their own football field.

The top of the football bowl was also a great place to see the progress on the church.  The backside of it used to be two stories tall.

A peek at the progress

 

Stripping wire so the church can paid more for the copper it contains.

 

 

The man in the maroon shirt is the pastor of the church, Clint Knowles.  He’s been here with us everyday.

Lots of copper = lots of $$$ for the church!

A drive behind the Wrangler plant…

It’s amazing anyone made it out of this plant alive.  We were told last night, that Wrangler has continued to pay it’s employees.  They are opening two warehouses next week to start getting people back to work as well.

Below, a sign of hope…new construction!

Tuesday & Wednesday, May 24 & 25, 2011

Once work got started, it’s been a blur.  It’s amazing the progress that’s been made on the church in the first two days.  All in all with our Crossroads team, congregation members, our His Hands 2 Go ministry friends from New Orleans and Lifehouse Ministry participants from the church we’re staying at, we’ve had over 30 people working at the any given time.  The heat has been oppressive but these folks haven’t let up one bit.  It’s been a wonderful blessing to see how God’s people can work together for a common goal while serving our Christ.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many more pictures to come.

Hackleburg Community Church

Our task for the week is assisting the Hackleburg Community Church, formerly Hackleburg Church of God of Prophecy dismantle their 2 year old church.

As we pulled in the parking lot Tuesday morning, more than one of us was wondering what on earth we had gotten ourselves into.  But a plan was made and piece by piece it’s coming down to allow this congregation to re-build and continue their outreach into the community of Hackleburg and the surrounding area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note all of the shards of wood stuck in the stucco above and the PVC pipe stuck in near the cross in the picture below.  That is some force!