Unfortunately, our wireless connection has gone from sporadic to completely down. I'm on the pastor's computer at the moment. For now, you'll just have to do with a quick update...
Our team (team 1 of 3) was lucky enough to have a house slightly ahead of the others so we started texturing walls yesterday and may do some painting today.
At lunch, one of the other teams was visited by John Booth (pictured). He talked to us for close to an hour about his experiences being trapped for 11 days, then rescued by the Canadian national guard at gun point, then sent to North Carolina (I believe) and finally reunited with his family. His descriptions of the struggles that many went through and are still going through really brought home a point that Zach (one of the founders of St. Bernard Parish) made to us -- the people here want us to take home two things: 1. That they are good people and 2. To not forget them. John described being able to talk to the people who came down to work at the Hippie Village as the thing that saved his life -- without being able to tell his story, he doesn't believe he would still be alive today.
John now spends his weekends volunteering at Camp Hope feeding the hundreds of volunteers who stay there and travels around talking to other groups telling his story to give them an insight into what happened and what's happening today. He is an amazing man, like so many others here. Every story he tells starts with a personal description folks he knew, and there are a lot of them. It really shows how tightly knit this community was before Katrina tore it apart.
Our team (team 1 of 3) was lucky enough to have a house slightly ahead of the others so we started texturing walls yesterday and may do some painting today.
At lunch, one of the other teams was visited by John Booth (pictured). He talked to us for close to an hour about his experiences being trapped for 11 days, then rescued by the Canadian national guard at gun point, then sent to North Carolina (I believe) and finally reunited with his family. His descriptions of the struggles that many went through and are still going through really brought home a point that Zach (one of the founders of St. Bernard Parish) made to us -- the people here want us to take home two things: 1. That they are good people and 2. To not forget them. John described being able to talk to the people who came down to work at the Hippie Village as the thing that saved his life -- without being able to tell his story, he doesn't believe he would still be alive today.
John now spends his weekends volunteering at Camp Hope feeding the hundreds of volunteers who stay there and travels around talking to other groups telling his story to give them an insight into what happened and what's happening today. He is an amazing man, like so many others here. Every story he tells starts with a personal description folks he knew, and there are a lot of them. It really shows how tightly knit this community was before Katrina tore it apart.
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