In case you haven't been paying attention to the past week's news, the Midwest was hit with record amounts of rain the past week-and-a-half.  Although Watertown did not make the national headlines, many of you may have perhaps wondered if Maranatha received any rain.  To answer that question one has only to look at the pictures included.  The road in front of Kwik Trip across from Weeks Dorm was covered with four feet of water. Many city streets have been closed due to flooding. A number of Maranatha families have had water damage to their basements and personal property.  This week is to be sunny and dry so we are hoping to dry out. (Visit the homepage of Maranatha's website for a link to the photo gallery.)

After 50 years of living, I had my first sandbag-filling-and-carrying experience.  Last Sunday night the wife of our plant manager called to enlist help with sand bags.  The tiny creek behind Weeks Dorm overflowed its banks and was within five feet of Day Dorm.  At 11:00 p.m. about 35 men, boys, and girls gathered and began moving first floor furniture and filling and carrying sand bags.  The task took little more than an hour, and Day was saved from water damage.

Please pray for the men in our maintenance department.  With the record amounts of snow that fell in January and February and the record amounts of rain in June, they have already put in a year's worth of time and energy into the buildings and grounds at Maranatha.

That's one parent's perspective