Sunday Night Update

Thank you for praying for us! We have had a good day and are now settled in at Berean Bible Church here in New Orleans. The weather was great today! We got up this morning, had breakfast at McD's (always fun with 35 of your closest friends) and then headed off to Biloxi (80 miles away). It was interesting to see the progress (or lack of) in the different areas we served in the past. We had some down time for lunch in Biloxi. The team visited the Katrina Memorial, stopped at Betty's house (who we helped 2 years ago) and prayed for her even though she was unable to join us today. She is with her mom in Baton Rouge who is ill. Please keep her in your prayers. It was powerful for the team (those who helped her and those who are here for the first time) to be at her house today. We stopped off at Wal-Mart and picked up some necessities (pillows, etc) and then headed back to New Orleans. After picking up our luggage at the hotel (they graciously stored it for us today) - we headed to dinner and then onto our host church. We had an orientation with the leadership here, some personal bible study time and received our work projects for the week. More on that tomorrow. We had an extended time as the team before bed tonight praying and talking through what we have seen God do so far. We are up at 6:30 am and then at breakfast at 7:30 am and off to our worksites at 8:00 am. Tomorrow we will give you a fuller picture of the different project sites. We really appreciate your prayers. Check back tomorrow!