This morning as we were listening to the news on the radio we were told that the community of Parmalee has been without power since the storm last week (Thursday, Nov. 6) and it is expected that they will be without for 7 to 14 more days. Parmalee is on the Rosebud Indian Reservation -- to the north of us about 20 miles. They asked for lamp oil, batteries and food.
We were just given a large donation of small blankets from the Love, INC store and the Overisel Reformed ladies had been busy knitting and crocheting slippers. We vividly remembered how cold it can get without electricity and so we decided that Parmalee would be a good place for some of these blankets and slippers. There was also meat left in the freezer from this summers Prairie Light Youth Camp.
We loaded up our truck with blankets, slippers (not all of what we were given), 3 hams, 8 packages of ham lunch meat, approximately 15 pounds of hamburg and 20 pounds of Canadian Bacon.....not a lot of food but any little bit helps. One of the gentlemen said "ham and add beans".. We brought it to a little building in Parmalee that serves as a church. It is the only building in the community that had heat -- where they were cooking hot food and giving out the donations. Everything was very much appreciated.
The photo above is what the wind did to the power lines coming into Parmalee.
Please pray for the community of Parmalee. They are a community that has been wracked with 5 or 6 suicides of young people this past year, and this only adds to their pain.
Thank you for your awesome prayer support!!! God is GOOD!!
Gary and Barb
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