The First Instalment of the New Orlean Chronicles

We've returned from our mission trip to New Orleans and praise God for the opportunities we had there. The main thing we did while we were there was "gut" houses. We basically took all of the drywall, insulation, furniture, carpet, tile, etc. out of the house so it could be rebuilt. Other tasks included tearing down a garage, and cutting down trees. All in all the destruction even after all this time is still incredible. The first house we did was smaller and smelled horrible. The carpet was still completely soaked and you could see a path of puddles where you walked on it. We completely gutted that house so it was just the ourter bricks and the studs and some wiring and a water heater.
That night Bill the fearless leader of the group took us all out to dinner with one of the ladies whos house another half of our group had gutted that day. We went to Landry's Seafood and all had a jolly good time with food and fellowship with our new friends from Littleton Church of Christ (and a fun fact ends up that is the church that my boss at Pump it Up attends).
The next day we woke up bright and early at Tammany Oaks Church of Christ who were kind enough to house us and who have been hosting volunteers since the hurricane first hit. We had breakfast and a morning devo and went to a house with a car flipped on it's side and a ruined garage. We flipped the car and emptied all the stuff out of the garage into the culdesac where it was then dumped by city officials.
After we finished that we split into two groups again and one group went to tear down another garage that had collapsed on itself and my group which consisted of most of the Folks from Kairos went to cut down trees and hall them to the side of the road (see second picture)

That's all for now but I will definately continue to post the rest of what happened later.