Christ Community Church

Return to Normal Church Schedule

The Tuesday prayer group met this morning. Tutoring will resume on Wednesday afternoon. And our Lay Institute for Equipping will meet Wednesday night. Our schedule is returning to normal.

Life After Ike

Over the past two weeks, we have seen hurricanes bring devastation to communities to our east, west, and south. Yet, Lake Charles has been largely spared.

For our friends who live away from the Lake Charles area, Hurricane Gustav brought damage to much of Louisiana, cutting a swath from the southeast to the northwestern portions of the state. Then, Hurricane Ike, a large hurricane with hurricane-force winds stretching to Lake Charles, brought great devastation to our west. Although the winds in Lake Charles were substantial, things have been nailed down and repaired since Hurricane Rita in 2005, and the wind damage seems to be light. Hurricane Ike was more a flooding event from the storm surge than a wind event for us.

Nothing in Lake Charles is much over 15' above sea level, and some of us live much lower than that. Yet, to date, it appears that all church property and the homes of our families have been largely spared from major damage.

To our knowledge, the one major exception to that has been the Vincent fish camp on Moss Lake, which was to have been the location for two church events this past weekend. As of yesterday, it is still inaccessible, so the damage has not been determined. Yet, we know that it was in an area that received 10+ feet of storm surge.

For our friends away from Lake Charles, thank you for your prayers and expressions of concern on our behalf. It appears that we have been largely spared. We anticipate assisting our neighbors to the south and west for many months.

Hurricane Ike Clean Up

A group of hardy souls met at the church for prayer and worship this past Sunday. Following that, many traveled around our community, cleaning the yards of those of us who evacuated.

It is a disquieting experience to drive up to one's home for the first time after an evacuation. Even if one anticipates light damage, it is still something of an anxious experience.

How nice it was to gain a first sight of your home with a house intact, and with fallen branches on the curb, already prepared for pick up! For that group of hardy souls: Thank you! It was a real blessing. It was a sign of God's care and of the love of his people.

Hurricane Gustav: Where in the World was Carmen SanDiego (and the rest of us)?

With the evacuation now over, we are returning to Lake Charles. Many of us have already arrived, and the rest of us will come home in the next day or two. We thought we would leave up this partial list of who was where.

Anna Geery has also returned from the hospital in Shreveport to Lake Charles. She has further medical tests ahead.

Pearl Akers	Houston, TX (with her son, Bruce)
Rebecca Bowers	Lake Charles, LA
Christy Brown, Kent & Emily	Alexandria, LA (at her parents' home)
Kendell Brown	Lake Charles, LA (keeping Entergy going)
Daryl Burckel	Lake Charles, LA
Mary Burckel & girls	Houston, TX
The Collins family	Lake Charles, LA (Cindy will keep Caterpillar open)
Suzy & Calli Comeaux	Livingston, TX (with family)
Kathy Dixon	Shreveport, LA (with family)
Matt Dougay	Cincinnati, OH (with Jon Frantz)
Edna Mae Emmons	San Antonio, TX (with son, Barry Blackwell)
Debbie & Holly Evans	Mobile, AL (may have had to evacuate from there)
Eric Evans	Lake Charles, LA (maintaining the blood supply)
Vic Evans	Lake Charles, LA (keeping Entergy going)
Angie Ewing	Lake Charles, LA
Jonathan Frantz	Cincinnati, OH (with Matt Dougay)
Anna Geery	Shreveport, LA (Anna was transferred from the LC hospital to Shreveport by ambulance)
Kay Geery	Lake Charles, LA (working at the hospital)
Brian Hamilton	Jackson, TX
Bruce Hamilton	The Woodlands, TX
Steve & Drucy Hardesty	Lake Charles, LA (Drucy will have to keep Walgreens open)
Jessie Harris	Lake Charles, LA (Jessie is working on Friend Ships with disaster relief)
Josh Harris	Arkansas
Mari Harris	Lake Charles, LA
Mariece Harris	Palmetto, LA
Don Hill	Wimberly, TX (out of Austin, at his daughter, Donna's house)
David & Valerie Hoffpauir	Jasper, TX (with family)
Lorene Jones & Diane Graves	Oak Grove, LA (with Rita & Doug Ainsworth)
Tracy LeBleu	Lake Charles, LA
Vicky LeBleu & Janie Mack	Alexandria, LA
Daniel & Mandi LeJeune	Alvin, TX
Julie Lukker	Katy, TX
Ray & Veronica Martin	Bossier, LA
Mitch McAnulty	Lake Charles, LA (keeping all the trucks rolling)
Valerie & Krisleigh McAnulty & Bonnie Self	West Monroe, LA (at the home of a friend)
Rick & Wava McClain, Christy & Julie	Meridian, MS (with family)
Drew & Noelle Mills	Somewhere between San Antonio & Austin, TX
Erin Moreno	Nashville, TN (with family)
Eric & Jamie Pharis	Houston, TX
Chris & Amy Pumpelly	Lake Charles, LA
Fred & Doris Reeves	Arkansas
Ray & Elaine Rials	Houston, TX (with his daughter, Debbie)
Loren & Nancy Rohr	Shreveport, LA (with Loren's brother)
The Shrewsberrys	Lake Charles, LA
Ken & Shirley Sifford	Jackson, MS (with Alan)
Barbara Somers	Dallas, TX (w/ a friend)
Matt Sollay	Lake Charles, LA (at the church)
The Tookes	Lake Charles, LA
The VanDykes	Longview, TX
The Vincents	Tyler, TX
Roger & Joanne Walker	Lake Charles, LA
Pat & Sue Williams	Rayville, LA (just west of Monroe)