Tornadoes, Everyday Joe’s, Our Pastor, and Family
Hello there.
It’s been a few days since we’ve spoken. How are things? How was the long weekend? Productive? Relaxing? So awesome?
Just before the recent three day weekend began, there was a tornado in nearby Windsor, Colorado. Tornadoes have been on my list of fears since I read Night Of The Twisters in grade school. The other two things on that list are being stabbed and birds.
Darren Fred – the pastor of Timberline Oldtown (the church that is in 144 S. Mason on Sundays and started Everyday Joe’s) – lives in Windsor with his wife Mel, daughter Jessica, dog Thor and hamster LuLu. On Thursday afternoon, Denver’s 9News reported that the intersections hit hardest by the tornado were 1st & Garden and Cornerstone & Garden. The Fred residence is the corner lot of Cornerstone & Garden.
All living things at the home survived, as did the home itself (repair is necessary, but the Freds will return to their abode in early 2009). On Sunday, a large portion of the Everyday Joe’s and Timberline Oldtown family made the trek to Windsor to help the Freds and their neighbors through the beginning stages of putting reality back together. Everyday Joe’s executive director Daryle Dickens took his video camera along. The following is a portrait of family and community and brokenness and love and hope and joy and many many other things coming together quite perfectly.
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