The coolest thing has been seeing the amazing outpour of support from everyone. Restaurants offer free food, shops offer free clothes, and people offer free lodging to strangers.
Also, Alan Reed, the lead pastor of The Pursuit Church, the congregation where I am working, came together with several other churches and actually started a chapel and prayer area at the evacuee center. Christians and non-Christians alike came forward to be prayed over and prayed with. It was obvious that God was at work in many hearts.
We are confident that although the disaster is heart wrenching, God will still use it to his glory and to draw people to him.
Also we will be taking a disaster relief class next week and will become certified to be on-site to help if needed. We are all on call and ready to serve in any way we can and in any capacity we can.
Beauty can still rise from ashes. Pray fervently for the all the evacuees and those affected. They are scared and lost, and now more then ever, they need our prayers and love.
Kali Hellinghausen, a student at Northwestern State University, is serving in Fort Collins, Colo., with Go Now Missions.
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