The Disaster Response Team is doing well in Moore, OK. They are working hard primary clearing debris from homes as well as public spaces and schools etc. They are meeting many other volunteers from around the country and enjoying working alongside them with Operation Blessing. In our last blog entry we mentioned team member Brian Barrett who has been admitted to the hospital and is awaiting bypass surgery for his heart. The team leader has been in consistent contact with Brian and his wife and says they are doing well. Brian was transferred to another hospital on Tuesday evening where the surgery will take place, but it has not yet been scheduled. Please continue to pray with us for Brian and his family. Here is an update from Brian’s son, Brandon Barrett, about his experience of seeing the devastation from the tornadoes:
“Ever since we’ve been here I’ve been watching all the other people around me getting very emotional about seeing all of the destruction and sadness, but I haven’t. I know why they were but I couldn’t feel it my self. It takes a lot to bring any emotions out of me because, I don’t know, I it just does. But today we we went to the elementary school site and, the same as usual, everyone was upset and I just kinda stood there reading the signs and looking at the toys people left for the children that had passed and nothing. I had continued to walk around and there he was, the one guy I had seen do nothing but smile and laugh and joke and cut up, bawling at the sight of this. He was talking about how he could imagine the things the children had to go through and how scared the must have felt and that was it for me. Tears pored down my face and that was my turning point for today. Ever since then I’ve truly been able to appreciate the magnitude of the destruction and sadness here.”
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