Archive for March, 2008

Katrina Mission Adult Team Day 2 - addendum

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

While working on our site, we met a neighbor, Fred Delise, who was able to tell us some of the story of what they had experienced.  The neighborhood in which we are working is in St. Bernard’s Parrish, and was a white middle class neighborhood of elderly people, many of whom had raised their families here […]

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Katrina Mission Adult Team Day 2

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Now that our two teams have connected, I can share the travel saga of Team 1.  After leaving in the snowstorm on Saturday morning at 5:00 am, they struggled in the traffic on 495 at 40 miles per hour, until Mike Willett took over driving, and the sky cleared.  They celebrated Bob Willome’s birthday (which […]

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Katrina Mission Adult Team Day 1

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

From your outreach mission team in Louisiana, we bring you good news!  Spring is coming, we have seen it!
Our two teams have completed the journey; Van 1 with Keith, Claire and Cheri left Dover on Friday morning at 7:00 am, and spent the first night in Harrisonburg Virginia, and the second night just south of […]

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Katrina Youth Mission - Day 7

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

With a final good-bye to Slidell, which included a visit to the completed home of Rose, one of last year’s mission team’s homeowners, Maggie describes her emotions - many of which are shared by others on the team.

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