Proud to be a part of ALERT

When he was 15 years old, our oldest son, Nathan, told us of his interest in being a part of ALERT. ALERT is an acronym which stands for Air Land Emergency Resource Team. ALERT is a Christian organization which trains young men to be spiritually and physically fit in order to be ready to help in the time of natural disaster. At that time, they had recently moved their headquarters from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to a former university campus in Big Sandy, Texas. He spent a week there helping one of our friends, George Mock, rewire a large portion of the campus for electronics. Beth and I believe that the Lord had been working in Nathan's life, and used this visit to instill in his heart a desire to be a part of ALERT. Two years ago he left his well-paying job working for a company which sold and repaired computers here in Florida to travel to Eastern Texas. Thus he began the process of going through Basic Training, Phases II and III, and graduating from each one. At the conclusion of Phase III, he was asked by Captain Chris Overby to join him in the computer (IT) department of ALERT. This was what he has been trained to do. Seven years have passed since Nathan first stepped onto the ALERT campus. He has now been working for them since last November, and feels that this is where God wants him at this juncture in his life. We are glad he has this sense of being in God's will. There's no place better to be than where God wants you. We're proud to have one of our children working at ALERT, and so to be tied to its ministry.