Ramona Response Day 1

After arriving yesterday we went out to eat at Mama Rosa's Restaurant, which I had pegged for a fairly nice place for Mexican food. To my surprize it was Italian. While at Mama Rosa's we met a couple who were still recovering from the previous fire here a couple of years ago. I told them what our group was doing and they nodded and thanked us for caring and being here in Ramona. They left soon after that and within a few minutes we were told by the waitress that the couple was paying for our meal and that we could add anything else we wanted. What a blessing for us. A couple we had never met decided to pay for 12 meals. It was cool and we all were greatly blessed by the event.
Today we made the obligatory tour of destruction as we traveled to Escandido, CA. The fire swept through the valley and burned most of everything in its path.
When arrived in Escandido we helped offload a 53' trailer from the Disaster Relief Effort of Nashville. I was extremely happy to see the back wall of that trailer when we finally finished.
Tonight we ate at the Mountainview Community Church, they are hosting a group called Christ in action(CIA). CIA is from VA and is currently providing our morning and night meals. CIA also has shower trailers that are out of this world. Tide detergent is providing a trailer of washers and dryers.
Tomorrow we go to work at our first site. We are eager to go work and be the hands God wants us to be.
Glen (Dr. Glen) was wearing his capri pants that he wore during the Katrina relief effort. The only thing missing was his robin's egg blue crocs that he wore as we arrived in Slidell. Funny how he seems to fit in so well in CA.

Ramona Response

We arrived last night after an eleven hour journey on the road. We arrived safely and all is well. Today we will help unload a truck load of items from Disaster Relief out of Nashville and set up camp at the Ramona Church of Christ. We have homeowners ready for us to work at their places and we are ready to roll. We will blog more later today.

we seek your prayers,

Buddy