Fargo Flood Fight 2009

Can You See A Difference??

Here are pictures from today...they raised the crest level AGAIN...started at 39, then 40, 41 and now it is up to 42+. If you look at my previous post you can see the difference...

A silver lining in all of this...

1. I pray that this will draw many people into a relationship with Christ.
2. Everyone emptied their basement...this flood is a forced spring cleaning.
3. I'd take a flood over a tornado, hurricane or earthquake any day...it could be worse.
4. People are still in good spirits, hopeful and helpful even after hours in the cold sandbagging.

God promised He would not cover the whole earth in a flood ever again...I think we should have asked Him about ND! :)

Changes...

Here is what can happen in a short period of time....
The drain protecting our house yesterday....

and today...

our house 1 week ago exactly....
and our house today...

It's raining...

When it's raining outside and a flood is coming, what's a girl to do....get her boots and Dora umbrella and play in the rain!We've had a lot of people ask how we're doing as far as the flood is concerned...that's a million dollar question! We're praying the predictions are wrong...if they aren't...it will be a HORRIBLE mess for everyone. They are building dikes and sandbagging as fast as they can, but will it be fast enough? Dan is going to sandbag tonight, they are asking for 24 hour a day volunteers to help...we even have Sandbag Central. If this truly is a 500 year flood...I'm glad I won't be around 500 years from now to experience it again!

The Perfect Club

Last night was Wednesday which equals Family Time in this house. Our verse for this week was

"Now is the time to come to Jesus" 2 Corinthians 6:2

After dancing and verse memorization, we shared the gospel with J and A and talked to them about it. They have both already made a decision to receive Christ, but last night we wanted to focus on the importance of telling others because "NOW is the time to come to Jesus". We talked about how they could share the gospel with their friends and other people that they know. We used the analogy of The Perfect Club. We talked about whether or not we would be allowed into God's Perfect Club - Heaven (only those who are perfect may enter). The answer..."No". We are not perfect. Then we talked about how God made a way for us to be invited into the Perfect Club and that was by asking Jesus to be perfect for us. J shared about friends at school that he could share the gospel with and we talked about how he can pray that God would give him the right moment and the right words to share with those friends. The kids asked lots of questions and they always enjoy talking about people that are already in Heaven to greet them someday. We didn't have an activity this week because family time was condensed down to a 1/2 hour due to homework and the fact that we needed to practice for the play that J is in next weekend. It was a shorter Family Time, but the gospel is always powerful and we want to make sure the kids understand it well enough to share it with others. Will you be allowed into the Perfect Club?

After bath time, A and S listened to mommy and J practice the songs for the play. Precious!

What do you do with lots of snow???

Make a snowman of course! He's kind of like a snowman skyscraper though. The weather has been above freezing making the snow finally sticky enough to make a snowman. I wanted you to be able to understand just how tall he is...that's why it's not a closer picture of the snowman. The snowman had a great, yet short life. Later that afternoon he melted just enough to fall over a litte...when you're that high up and you fall over, you break into many pieces. Kind of like Humpty Dumpty, we weren't able to put him back together again.