Post on Mike O’Connor’s (Presbyterian pastor from Rockhampton, Queensland) blog about the current and future steps to recovery from the flooding that has affected Rockhampton (along with half of Queensland).
If you’re looking for some up to date information for practical suggestions, prayer information and copy for newsletters this weekend and beyond, go there.
Here’s the first part of the post where Mike describes the current situation.
With the floodwaters now rising in South East Queensland and even Northern New South Wales! Here are some things we are doing in Rockhampton to love our city as soon as the water goes down. These things are in place and set to roll when we can start cleaning up. Just want you to know though, even though the TV cameras have moved on the water in Rockhampton hasn’t. We are still flooded in up here and cut off from the world by road/rail and air. Concerns are now for our city of 75,000 people for food supplies coming up from the South and for diseases and sickness. Please don’t forget us in your prayers and here’s some things you can pray about for us.
1. We have become the child care facility for any one wanting to have their kids minded during the clean up
1.a We are going to do evening BBQ to feed people when they pick up their kids
2. We were given 5 chest freezers (new) yesterday to freeze meals to give to people and when we’re done we can give the freezers away.
3. We are still organising a team of people who can just labour — door knocking an area to assist people in the clean up.
already in place and set to roll when the waters go down.
4. Obviously help ing people from church flooded in.
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