So Saturday night the team from the Baton Rouge Dream Center got together at the Lake House and had dinner and fellowship, a great, fun filled evening. After dinner Ms. Claudia asked each table to right down 2 programs that they would like to see started at the DC. Cool part about this was that each table had the same type programs, each a little different but for the most part the same programs. Cool huh?
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Tonight’s launch of new beginnings at the Baton Rouge Dream Center Is just another step in showing Christ to the hurting. If you or a loved one is struggling with an addiction or you want to learn how to cope with a loved one who has an addiction please feel free to come out tonight at 7:00 PM in the back building of the dreamcenter. We all know the only true path to freedom is freedom that starts and ends at the cross. Volunteers are needed as well! Contact
Joey.laird@ChurchUnited.org for more information.
This was the planning/prayer meeting last night!
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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”.
