Monday was such a Monday! It was the usual scramble trying to match work teams to jobs, find ladders and tools, locate the job sites, only to find out that job was already finished and going back to get another assignment – the good and bad news is that so much progress has been made in D’Iberville that it can be difficult finding enough work for 110 people to do. Yup, that’s how many of us are in camp, mostly college students.
Cross Roads was split in two today. Jim Potter had a harem of women at Ruby Bradford’s home scraping, applying primer and painting the outside: front porch, carport, walls above the brick, and so on. Ruby is 91 years old, and used to run the Kessler Air Force Base (she was the administrative assistant to a series of commanders). She’s also currently visiting a daughter in California, so although we won’t get to meet her, we’re pleased that she’ll come home to a sparkling house. That team hopes to finish tomorrow.
Mike, Gary C & Zach finished a porch today for a family who’ve had to cope with the premature birth of a child who nearly didn’t survive.
Gary L spent his day as gofer: yes, a couple of trips to Lowes in there, but mostly going to a dozen or so homes attempting to contact owners to see if they were ready for work crews yet. Some folks are STILL waiting for insurance money, some just don’t have the money to buy the building supplies they need, or save up for months at a time until they can get what they need for the next step in their rebuilding process. Remember, it’s been 2 1/2 years since Katrina. Lisa got pulled from the painting job to spend the afternoon in the kitchen helping fix dinner, and helping Irene clean up afterward with help from Gary L & Carol.
After dinner, all the guys except Gary L went off to watch the bowl game, and some of the women trekked to WalMart. We’re looking forward to having dinner with Barbara Parker tomorrow evening. (Cross Roads Community team dry-walled Barbara’s house on our first trip.) We also hope to meet up with some Leechburg Lutherans who are working this week in Ocean Springs, just east of D’Iberville.
The 14th member of our team arrives about 10 PM tomorrow – Karen Lyon. Please pray for smooth travel for Karen.
I enjoyed reading about your activities and have you all in my prayers. The pictures are great.
Be safe and may God bless.
By: Linda Hill on January 8, 2008
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