"The Big Easy"

Last week we experienced our first days and nights apart since we have been married. I led a trip to New Orleans with 9 other people. Everybody was from ROCKHARBOR except for my parents. Let me just tell you, it was HOT! It was hot and the humidity was probably like 80 or 90%. We all had a wonderful time and really grew close as a team.

We did a bunch of different things. We tore town a garage/shop, distributed food to members of the community, did yardwork, helped at a barbecue, and fed the homeless at a place caled the wall. The two things I felt impacted me the most were distributing food and feeding the homeless. We were able to pray with people and hear their stories from when hurricane Katrina hit. Here is a picture of when we were handing out food. We were in a church parking lot and some of our team members were holding up signs that said free food. There were all kinds of people who came and got food. Some had evacuated before the hurricane and some didn't, but most of them had one thing in common...their house had been destroyed by the storm. Most of them were living in trailers.

God really worked in the lives of all the people on the team. Since I have been home, I continually think of the people there pray that they have hope and will be able to help get their city back to "normal" someday.