Our Favorite Weather Website

With the storm season springing to life, I find that I check my favorite weather site before I check my email. Weather Underground is a great weather site especially for tropical activity, as they call it. It's not a crazy political gang from the 70s, just a pun on the name. Excellent maps and blogs and when you live in Miami, you learn more about tropical weather systems than you ever thought you would.
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/
Actually here in Miami, our tropical storms build community. Neighbors will help each other put up window coverings. Folks will check on their elderly residents. Of course, storm damage can bring out the worst in people as well. Price gouging, scamming contractors, plain old jerks seem to come around just in time of crisis. But Community isn't all peachy keen and rosy to say the least. It's just a knowledge of a group of people that were in it together. And Storms can make a county of 2.5 million people think alike. Smells like a miracle.

Prayers- Arrivals of all sorts of things...

Please pray for traveling mercies for our incoming Dwell participants. Our first new friend arrives tomorrow! And right on her heals is Tropical Storm Ana. Immediately after, another Dweller is to arrive next Saturday. God of all creation and weather systems, please guide the travels of our participants both near and far. But also please guide the dissipation of threatening storm systems.

Drawing the Summer to a close

The summer went by so very fast. The staff in Miami are taking this time to retreat right here in town. We're reflecting on the many ways that God was alive and present in every way. From the agencies and the many clients we met, to the hundreds of volunteers God's grace, love and mercy were tangible. For the staff personally we're reading Henry Nouwen's In the Name of Jesus. Nouwen writes of the three temptations of Christ. We reflect on those temptations and realize how closely they'll parallel our experience this summer. We have only begun to learn these important lessons in Christian servant-leadership. We thank you for your prayers and support this season.