Advance planning for disaster preparedness resulted in The Ark of the Highland Lakes first deployment of The ANDY, a full-service mobile kitchen, during the disaster relief response to the recent flooding in the Texas Hill Country. The ANDY, named after the late Andy Burk, was deployed immediately after the July 4 flooding disaster to provide three meals a day to victims and first re sponders at First Christian Church in Burnet.
Andy Burk was one of the founding members of the Links Fellowship in Horseshoe Bay. As president of Men of Faith at the Church at HSB, Burk instituted the monthly Saturday morning prayer breakfasts. He was also the visionary who started the Men’s Community Bible Study, which hosts 200 men weekly from all over the Highland Lakes region. As one of his friends commented, “Andy left his fingerprints on many lives.”
The significance of Burk’s influence is indicated by the generosity of his Links friends who funded The ANDY. The trailer’s name was developed by Ark Executive Director Kevin Naumann as an acronym for Abundant Nutrition Delivering Yahweh, an apropos name for its purpose and the individual it commemorates.
