Agape Bible Church – Pastor Parris Patrick

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Reflections on a Houston Recovery Trip

PastorServe staff has been in Houston during the month of October 2017. Below are some reflections from those trips. Jimmy Dodd Deeper than drywall and carpet. The devastation reaches into families, marriages, families and church staffs. It’s only been seven weeks and the cracks are showing. I am amazed at how quickly PastorServe has become…

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Instruments of rescue – a canoe, pots and pans, relationships

This was my first trip, and by this time much of the clean up from Harvey was already underway, and rebuilding was taking place. Still, as we drove through some neighborhoods, we could see piles of broken sheet rock, carpets, appliances, cabinets, and clothing near the end of driveways. At first glance, it simply represented…

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Pastors living out of the church office

After arriving in Houston we began our travel to visit local pastors, I was struck by how much debris was sitting curbside. At times the debris extended the length of peoples’ yards and would be piled four to five feet high. It hit me that this “debris now turned garbage,” were actually pieces of peoples’…

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