Quotes by Merrill Oster

“So we had furniture before we had houses to put it in.”

“My total motivation is to serve the Lord, ... Thats just the natural response of a Christian ? to give back.”

“Making contacts direct ? church to church, individual to individual ? is producing the delivery of services much more quickly than government agencies can do it, ... Were really meeting some needs that are urgent.”

“I found 14 trailers in Cedar Falls, Iowa,”

“Its like God had this resource sitting waiting for us,”

“Since the hurricane, the size of the choir has doubled; workers are showing up who had not been in church for weeks; and tired volunteers are rejoicing in the feeling that the Holy Spirit is at work both in the church and in the lives of those they serve. The Methodists showed up Saturday night to relieve the tired Baptists from their kitchen duties as they served their Catholic and Presbyterian evacuee friends.”