Faith in Action: A Queen for a Day
by Sherri Jackson
CBS 42 News
2008-05-05 07:55:44.0
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Out of gratitude over her daughter surviving a terrible car accident, Linda Oliver asked what you do when God gives you a miracle. See how that question sparked a ministry of faith in action that's giving back to women still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina.
"Just trying to get back to how life was before Katrina has been a long haul. Nothing is back in place."
"The most frustrating part was trying to find out where to go for help."
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Tesheena Thomas and Robbie Sharp are examples of women who are climbing out of the pit Hurricane Katrina left behind, and they are the women Linda Oliver's ministry A Queen for a Day wants to help.
They've been collecting items and donations in Birmingham to pamper 200 women on the Gulf Coast. Linda and a band of sisters loaded up their vehicles and drove from Alabama to Gulfport to lay the ground work for a mission trip they are planning for May 31st in Gulfport.
“I found when you are down in the pit you don't care about what your look like about eating, you’re just surviving, and a caregiver doesn't take time to give care to herself," said Oliver.
A Queen for a Day is designed to pamper women like Donna Watts, who still lives in a FEMA trailer two and half years after Katrina hit. Donna, Tesheena and Robbie are all in various stages of restoring their pre-Katrina lives, much like the property you see on nearly any street off Highway 90 along the Gulf.
A Queen for a Day prayer team leaders, Mary Adams and Cynthia Warren, came to the Gulf Coast to pray for their upcoming mission which for them is rooted in prayer.
Today that's Donna Watts whom they met the day before at a FEMA trailer park in Pearlington, Mississippi. On this breezy Saturday afternoon, the women prayed under an oak tree. There are countless oaks lining empty lots where houses used to be on the coast.
People from around here know this tree as the friendship oak. It's been rooted here in this spot on the Mississippi coast for more than 500 years, withstanding countless storms and like many of the women being ministered to in A Queen for a Day, it's still standing, and still in need of help from the outside.
A Queen for a Day is in need of local people who want to travel to the coast to help or send donations to assist in pampering 200 women. For more information on how you can get involved, click here.
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