When you volunteer to work in a disaster area, you need to be flexible and willing to do what is asked of you. I had a chance to talk with one of the members of the volunteer team we drove up to Iwate a couple of weekends ago. I assumed that Lonnie had spent his time with a shovel "mucking out" houses. He told me he had done a number of things, including one that I hadn't thought of.
Particularly for the older residents of the shelters, a foot bath was a necessity, and people lined up at the shelter to have Lonnie perform this service for them. For people who have had a hot bath every night of their lives, living in a shelter is a real hardship, but the daily foot baths are meant to tide people over between real baths. We want to show Christ's love and do Christ's deeds, and sometimes do exactly the same things that He did.
