Thelma Goolsby said now that she’s back in Alabama, she wants to keep the feeling she had all last week. She saw God at work in Huffman, Texas, as Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief teams helped clean up trees and limbs after Hurricane Beryl.
“It’s been glorious and humbling,” said Goolsby, who serves as an ABDR chaplain.
Since teams from Alabama started arriving in Huffman on July 11, they’ve seen 13 people make a decision to follow Christ.
Goolsby got to talk with five of those individuals, and the movement of the Holy Spirit in their lives was on display, she said.
One woman arrived at the ABDR command center at First Baptist Church Huffman with tears in her eyes, saying the weight she was carrying was too much. After talking with Goolsby and telling her she wanted to know the truth about Jesus, she prayed to receive Christ and said the weight on her shoulders was gone.
“He had already pierced her heart; she came ready to talk,” Goolsby said.
Another man came to ask for help with a fallen tree at his house, and as Goolsby talked with him, she asked him a question.
“I said, ‘If your life ended the same day that tree’s life came to an end, where would you be?’ He thought for a minute and said, ‘Well, that’s a good question,’” Goolsby said.
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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.
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