Local Kids Rebuilding NOLA
Category: Faith... Hurricane Katrina... Local... Society & Culture...
Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 at 09:28 PM [GMT-6]

Our evening service last night was devoted to reports from four mission trips our church sponsored this summer, to Costa Rica, Germany, Montana, and New Orleans. The latter trip sent a group of teens to work on The Baptist Crossroads Project, a partnership with Habitat For Humanity that undertook the building of 40 homes in 40 days to replace some destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. (According to Habitat-NOLA.org, the scope of the project has now been expanded ten-fold!)

The report was given by our youth ministers and two of the teens who went on the trip, and it was accompanied by photos taken during the project. The work was hot, hard, and -- according to the workers -- extremely satisfying. The photos showed a very orderly row of colorful homes, elevated on concrete piers: the rebirth of a neighborhood.

Why do I mention this? Well, I think it's worth pointing out that not all teens spent their summer at the mall, but I also wanted report that if you were watching Fox & Friends this morning around 7:00 a.m., during the "Good News" segment, you saw video of the same row of houses we saw on the screens last night at church, as the network ran a brief report on Saturday's dedication of the first group of homes to be completed.

It was a great coincidence, hearing first from those whose hands helped shape those homes, and then seeing it affirmed via the international media.

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That just gave me the chills. :-) Good work! Those teens are setting a wonderful example for all of us.

Posted by: Gwynne at August 21, 2006 09:40 PM

Pretty interesting discussion last night at church, huh? I certainly did enjoy the process, but was very glad I was on the majority side when the vote went down.

Posted by: Nancy at August 21, 2006 11:47 PM
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