Most of the reason I'm online...

Praise the LORD!!!
   Most of the reason I’m online and at so many differing site is to bring attention to the ministry that the LORD has graced me with. Vine of CHRIST Ministries is this ministry. It is a non denominational Christian helps ministry with many branches, or it will have. It is currently in the ‘sprout’ stage, where it is putting out roots into the surrounding soil. The soil at this time is Kingsville Texas, for this is where the LORD has led me to set up it’s first fully functional ‘Disaster Relief Operational Center(DROC) and it’s first fully time office complex.
   Kingsville is located about 20 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, in a semi tropical area. The weather is warm to hot for most of the year, just the way I like it. There will be three DROC’s eventually. This one, one in Mississippi and another in southern Florida. Each being around 24 hrs. driving time apart. This will form the beginning of a covering zone that will one day reach across the continental United States. Eventually spreading out into foreign lands or wherever we’re needed.
   Though the LORD had shown me this branch of the ministry back in ‘97’, it began to take shape in 2005, when  I was blessed to sit through hurricanes Katrina and Rita while living in southwestern Louisiana. In the little town of Iowa, that is ten miles east of Lake Charles. Katrina didn’t bother us to badly, but Rita was a different story. I sat through 165+ mph. winds, torrential rains and 15 tornadoes (these I counted) in a little farm shanty out in the middle of an open field. The house stood up under the pressure for the most part, but the infra structure suffered much. We were without power for nearly 3 weeks and if any of you are familiar with the summer heat and humidity of the area, you know it was hot!
   It was a week after the storm when we got our first attention from outsiders. a little church from Rocky Mount, N.C., brought in a bunch of pre-packaged meals. A week later we were blessed by the National Guard and FEMA bringing in ice and MRE’s. A week later the Salvation Army and the next week the Red Cross. Everyone was very thankful for the help, but wondered what took everyone so long, especially considering the fact that most of these had large scale operations set up 180 miles away in New Orleans! Here in lies the reason for VCM. LORD willing we will be on site of major disaster in around 24 hrs.. We won’t of been sitting around waiting for them to occur, we will of already have started moving personnel and materials into the projected areas. Once the we’re able to go into these areas we’ll be setting up operational bases to disperse food and emergency supplies to those in need and providing all the direct assistance we can. There is a lot of work and training to fore go to get to this state, but LORD willing it won’t take that long.
   There is a great deal to be done and much that is needed, but as I promised the LORD twelve years ago when HE first showed me HIS ministry for me, I’ll not ask people to give. It is HIS ministry, I’m just the hands and the feet of it, and HE’ll be the one that leads people to volunteer and donated the time, money and materials that are needed by it. My job is just to do the work that HE sets forth for me. Organizing the operations, overseeing the building and set up of each of the programs and preaching HIS most precious gospel to those that will hear me. So to all that read this, pray about what the LORD would have you do concerning this HIS ministry and follow your heart. Hopefully someday soon I’ll be hearing from you in some way, shape of form!!!
GOD bless and good day,
Rev. Marshall Barth
Vine of CHRIST Ministries
http://vineofchrist.org