Early on Sunday morning, before the service began, members of Cornerstone Fellowship Church and staff from ReachGlobal Crisis Response gathered outside the church building. They prayed together and then broke into groups to prayer walk in Greenfield, IA to pray with the families reeling from the tornado that tore through the small town of about 2,000.

One group came across Miss Linda* who was working to clean and level a small space to rebuild a playhouse for her kids to play safely. They had the opportunity to hear her story and pray with her, and then they continued on their prayer walk. A couple days later one of our staff went down the road again and stopped in to see how Miss Linda was doing. A day group of volunteers, including a local church member, came back to help level the ground and set up a pallet foundation.

Cornerstone Fellowship Church is partnering with ReachGlobal Crisis Response and other ministries in the wake of the tornado, as well as running several outreach opportunities directly. One ministry that is only in town for the initial response agreed to share a list of people they work with in the community who accept Christ with Cornerstone Fellowship so that their care team can follow up. Imagine our staff's surprise when they saw Miss Linda's name on the list of people who have accepted Christ since the tornado. Since then the care team has reached out and interacted with Miss Linda several times. We pray she will continue to grow in her faith and her understanding of who God is and how He loves her.

ReachGlobal Crisis Response has been hosting day groups serving in Greenfield for the last couple weeks, and later in June they will begin hosting weeklong and half-week groups of volunteers. Will you pray with us that these teams will help support Cornerstone Fellowship's outreach and share the love of Christ with homeowners like Miss Linda? Would your church be interested in sending a team between now and August? Email respond@efca.org to reserve a week or click here for more information or to give to the response fund.

*Name changed for privacy