Dear Ones in Christ, May, 2009 Click here to return to our website.
Fifty six years ago today a tornado hit our home and Lakeview
High School in San Angelo, Texas at about 2:11 PM. I had the
most wonderful peace in my soul even though I did not know if
my parents were living or gone to Glory. Later I learned the
tornado had blown my mother across the alley landing at the
corner of a neighbor’s house driving a four foot piece of wood
about three feet above her head into the corner of that house.
She had read Psalm 91:2 on a scripture calendar above my desk
before the tornado lifted her and she went through the air;
“carried gently like a feather,” as she later described her flight.
Our Lord wonderfully keeps His word and she only had a couple
of bruises. My walk home after the tornado was amazing as I saw
straw sticking through telephone poles, a store with the wall gone
yet shelves against the inside of the wall with canned goods
stacked neatly on the shelves, houses looking like piles of
toothpicks and the only way I could recognize where I was as I
walked home was by counting the intersections. When I reached
where our house had stood, I walked to the corner and looked at
only the foundation tile with even the plumbing having been torn
out of the ground. Job 1:21b came to mind “the LORD gave, and
the LORD hath taken away: blessed be the name of the Lord.”
The neighbor’s pickup was parked in front of our house and the
door opened as my mother called “Bob we’re over here.”
I climbed into the pickup and we had a praise service because we
were all safe. All earthly possessions were gone but it really did
not matter because we had the Lord and each other! Our hearts
were filled with Praise!
The Lord recently placed me in contact with Brother James Curtis
in Ohio who works on internet web sites for missionaries. He has set
up a web site for us and the address is bbfibobgriggs.com. so you
can look us up on the web if you have an internet connection.
I will give you a more permanent web address later after we get
everything finalized. Our website is now bbfibobgriggs.com.
We are continuing to work on the site presently. This is a ministry
Brother Curtis has started to assist us missionaries in setting up
web sites to further promote our ministry. We appreciate so much
the Lord leading Brother Curtis into this ministry.
Brother JB and Daniel recently sent out packets and mailbags to
India, Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Togo. They will be sending out another
mailing soon. Remember you can now send new or used Bibles, New
Testaments, Sunday school or DBVS materials and Christian
literature to them at:
Grace Church, Attention:
JB & Daniel, 1440 Florida Rd.,
Durango, CO. 81301.
We Praise the Lord for leading them to take over our mailing ministry.
In Christian Love,
Bob and Verna
