Loneliness (6 of 7)
Series: Emotions
Jeff Ginn
Matthew 27:46
This past week we experienced one of the greatest floods in South Louisiana in history. If you know anything about South Louisiana, that's saying a lot. They say that Baton Rouge receives roughly 50 inches of rain a year. There was one part of Livingston Parish that received 31 inches in 15 hours. If I could just speak in rough terms, we received about half a year's rain in one day. I'm not sure of the number of homes that have been flooded. I read an article by CNN this morning that said 40,000, and I thought, ''You need to send out some more reporters, because I don't think that's accurate.'' I have heard from our disaster relief people that it could exceed 65,000, and you have may have heard even higher numbers. Some 200,000 people displaced. We've never been here before, but I'm so glad that we're here with the Lord.
I heard of some tragic stories. There was a young couple in our church. They just got married about a month ago. As a young couple, they had built their first starter home, and I know a lot of you can identify with that. I remember when Nell and I built our first home. They're one of the families that has been flooded. Just that brand-new couple losing their home is heartbreaking.
I know of widows and widowers in our church; in fact some of them are sitting right in this room with us, that have had a lifetime of memorabilia washed away in these waters. One of our families lost two homes. They were living in one. I understand they had sold it and had it under contract. They built a new home, and they were to close on that new home and move into it like a day after the floods came. So they lost the home they were in, and they lost a home to which they were going. My next door neighbors, beautiful people, godly people, I admire them so much. Of course their home was flooded, but he is an optometrist and his optometry practice was flooded, and their vehicles. They lost so much ...
Series: Emotions
Jeff Ginn
Matthew 27:46
This past week we experienced one of the greatest floods in South Louisiana in history. If you know anything about South Louisiana, that's saying a lot. They say that Baton Rouge receives roughly 50 inches of rain a year. There was one part of Livingston Parish that received 31 inches in 15 hours. If I could just speak in rough terms, we received about half a year's rain in one day. I'm not sure of the number of homes that have been flooded. I read an article by CNN this morning that said 40,000, and I thought, ''You need to send out some more reporters, because I don't think that's accurate.'' I have heard from our disaster relief people that it could exceed 65,000, and you have may have heard even higher numbers. Some 200,000 people displaced. We've never been here before, but I'm so glad that we're here with the Lord.
I heard of some tragic stories. There was a young couple in our church. They just got married about a month ago. As a young couple, they had built their first starter home, and I know a lot of you can identify with that. I remember when Nell and I built our first home. They're one of the families that has been flooded. Just that brand-new couple losing their home is heartbreaking.
I know of widows and widowers in our church; in fact some of them are sitting right in this room with us, that have had a lifetime of memorabilia washed away in these waters. One of our families lost two homes. They were living in one. I understand they had sold it and had it under contract. They built a new home, and they were to close on that new home and move into it like a day after the floods came. So they lost the home they were in, and they lost a home to which they were going. My next door neighbors, beautiful people, godly people, I admire them so much. Of course their home was flooded, but he is an optometrist and his optometry practice was flooded, and their vehicles. They lost so much ...
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