Everyone knows that preachers pray, study and take notes getting ready for Sunday mornings, they have to, they lead us, they teach us, but what about the people behind the scenes! This week each day I’ll bring you (cept Monday I’m off) one person or group that makes the preachers job better! Up today is a personal favorite of mine:
Meet Fannie Doucet, she with brandi, lead up the 0-3 yrs old Nursury, she is also my wife. (hince why she is first)
Without Nursury, the volunteers and the congregation would be louder and stinkier! They do a great job at the dream center! Check out and wait for Tuesday to roll around! Who will be next?
Check out my blog as well.
Www.Ericdoucet.com
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Al Gore didn’t create this? This is no accident. This was created for me to see and show me He loves me!
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Fannie and I are expecting our 6 child in March. We are praying for a healthy baby, with 4 girls and a boy already we are prepaired for either. Please join us in prayer as we walk out this great life God has given us!
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This is a picture of what it’s like to be in a house with 4 daughters. Seth and I don’t have a chance! This glass with fur was served to me at breakfast by my daughters!! Yes, welcome to my life. (I would trade it for nothing)
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I love my life. Wouldn’t trade it for anything. Here are the Doucet 5!
Emma, Seth, Laci, SaraRose and Erica
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Frank and Vince and the no place team (noplaceoutreach.org) are doing the real deal, get your hands dirty ministry in downtown Baton Rouge. They do it out of love and respect for homeless people. They also do it with what they have. They aren’t waiting on a grant, or a big donation. They are doing it daily with what they have! No big deal to them, just a love for the Father which gives them a love for His children. This group of people need the help of all of us to make this happen. Homelessness is real, we may not see it, but it’s there. Winter is coming up and we need socks, jackets, jeans and underwear. Anything your going to throw away, give to these guys. Not asking for money, just stuff your throwing out or giving away anyway. Although if your throwing money away, the will take it.
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Brother Ronnie has been helping families in North Baton Rouge for a very long time. Yesterday and continuing today Twitter and friends of friends are helping meet a need! Brother Ronnie is a mans man, a hard worker and even a bigger heart. He knows 50+kids who are in need of shoes to go to school, and guess what together we are meeting that need! Keep up the good work brother Ronnie.
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I am a 300-pound, tell ‘em like it is kind of guy, which is why I am so good at my job, trying to take belongings from people who do not want to let them go.
Some days, I admit, it is enough to break this burly 5-foot-8, 300 pound Cajun: It makes my heart sick. It’s affecting everybody. The
re’s no light at the end of this tunnel.
It used to be I dealt mostly with low-income families surviving on small paychecks. But lately my clientele has changed. They are people in nice houses with pets and lawns, young families and parent’s with children in college all living beyond their means.
My job can be dangerous, hairy moments are rare Repossession agents are not allowed to carry guns, or use force to repossess a vehicle or boat.
I hear every excuse possible. Lost job, family’s sick, can’t pay for the house — all legitimate excuses, I tell them, ‘It may not be your fault, but it is your problem. Some yell. Some threaten, and others warn that God will punish me. One lady told me I was going to go meet Jesus. Thank God I am ready when he is. I have to remind myself that the finance company pays me to do a job, not determine if the debtor should get to keep the unit. I go repo, that’s all. Same as you do your job, I do mine.
When I look at little kids crying … that’s heart-tugging. It becomes harder and harder not to care. I see single mothers, now wondering how they are going to get to work in the morning, fathers begging the kids to get back inside, I was asked to park down the road and walk back so the neighbors can’t see what’s happening. It’s a struggle, people most of the time are more worried about what I think about them than the people who they have to go back inside to, these people need them and crazy as it sounds so do I.
I told a friend of mine one time, God is in the repo business, I am very good at my job, I love people, I love helping people, it is not my job to determine if you can keep your vehicle, boat whatever, it is my job to find it and take it back to the bank. My friend told me this statement that made it clear “God is not into the repo business, God is in the Eric business”. He is not into taking stuff from people, but he is in the business of making sure me and my family has everything we need. I wish I had the money to pay every ones note for them, I wish I could tell the bank give them more time, But I don’t, But I do have a heart, A heart of the Father who is about restoration and hope and love and if you give me a chance while I am repossessing your things I will share that hope and love with you, I have never put a debtor down, never made a single person feel bad, you get mad, I get calmer, I will defend myself, but thank God he has never let it get that far. Peace, love and hope to all.
I try to remember what Donna Frank told me one time “where there is breathe Eric, there is Hope”.
It’s true, the world as we know it is getting smaller, thanks to the Al Gore and his Internet. I remember when I was younger, maybe JR high is when the Internet come to be, I remember sitting in a room and talking to someone in Greenland. I remember thinking this is so stinking cool. Now I use the Internet for other things, Information and church use, still meet people and talk to people from all over the world. I track people like a stalker via Twitter, talk to my aunt and my Mom and Dad in Washington State, through facebook (they still call because they love to hear my voice, It’s a mom thing I guess). I read peoples blogs from all over the word. Just this morning I sent out a tweet in French and Vietnamese, I have no clue how to write or read either one, but thanks to the Internet I can look like I do. Last night, I attended 2 church services on 2 coasts all within an hour of each other. I hung out with some very smart people online at HPC, chatted it up all from the comfort of my recliner, feet away from the best looking family on Earth. I prayed for people in 47 states, laughed with people from 4 different countries. This tool known as the Internet can be a trap from all of us, Don’t be fooled into thinking your above the trap, you can be in the trap, the good far out does the bad, with a system set up to keep you and your family safe, this is a God thing not an Al Gore thing. Thanks Dan Ohlerking and the family of people who helped him (he is smart, but we know) start the Internet campus and all the work that volunteers are doing that will never be seen by human eyes, all for the hope that someone is touched online, Someone who will never see the highland campus, the dream center, the new worship space in back of highland, or until they die may never see the inside of a church at all and you know what, God is ok with that, because he knows that, he knew from the moment they were born, he had a plan and his plan involved the Internet. Cool huh…….What are your thoughts on Internet Campuses?
