Tommy Williams

Just 2 friends figuring out life!

Hmmm, I just noticed that Tommy and Patrice have the same last name even though I knew they were both Williams. They are not related nor know each other, but they both live on different ends of Trilby street. 

Meeting Tommy was a God thing; quite literally an answer to prayer! In May of this year we were having a difficult time getting work out of the Central AL Long Term Recovery Committee but had plenty of volunteers. One Saturday I was doing an assessment on an upcoming project and I thought "Lord, there has to be people out there who don't know where to turn, that need help with restoring their storm damaged  home. Would you lead me to someone?" I drove a few blocks over to the middle of where the tornado had come through, and just had a sense that I should stay there, though not sure why. There was a roof there that looked like someone had started repairing, but other than that there was no reason to be there. Not a soul was in sight which is a bit unusual in itself; usually there are folks hanging out on a porch or something.

After waiting about 15 mins., I thought "this is crazy, no one's around, why stay here? I must have misjudged my senses" so I began to leave. As I was topping the hill, a truck came by and as I looked in the rear view mirror I could see rolls of felt paper and some 3/4" boards sticking out the back. I turned around and approached the guy driving and, long story short (he appeared wary of me, understandably so) met Tommy and committed to help him with his roof. He and his wife had been living in a hotel since the storm, had insurance but they wouldn't pay, and his money for the hotel was running out. He was working that 97°day with his son and a 70 yr old friend from TN. 

Since we work on donations, we could only commit to getting the roof on to get the house dried in, but the Lord has provided the funding to complete the home, one step at a time! We're not quite done yet with a few odds and ends to finish, but they're in the homeGod didn't dump a bunch of money on us in a lump sum but rather continued to provide as we continued to take the "next step". 

What a blessing to get to see this time and time again! God is good! Rarely does He show us the blessing ahead of time; we usually need to take the next step and then He shows up! If He showed us ahead of time, who wouldn't sign up?! ~monte

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