All of you know that Iowa got hit with a major storm named a Derecho on Aug. 10. Some of you probably already saw the video on Youtube that I posted last week about damage to the church.
We’ve had about a week and a half to clean up now and we’re done with most of it. There are still some smaller trees to trim on the edge of the parking lot. We found an electrician who will get us hooked up today or tomorrow. Some electricians say they are scheduling as much as 6 weeks out. There is still a lot of work to do in the community. Alliant Energy has been doing a very good job of putting up thousands of new poles and stringing up hundreds of miles of wire.
Some of our members have had some damage – roofs, siding, cars. Everyone lost power and Internet for a while. Of course, when you lose power for several days or more, all the food in the refrigerator and freezer has to get thrown out, unless you have a generator. More than 300 cell towers were damaged, so a lot of people had no use or limited use of their phones.
But in all of this, God was still with us. We only lost things, we didn’t lose anything more than that, and we didn’t lose Him. He is still our God and our Savior. When it seems like everything is falling apart, He gives us peace in Him. Below is a reminder message about that, and some pictures of the church.
After the storm and before cleanup.
A few cleanup pictures. I didn’t take more because I was busy working! Thank you to everyone who helped clean up – Curtis, Sheila, Mark, three volunteers from Iowa District East, Susan, Stephen, Sarah, and Pastor Eckert.
