my journey begins
So i am so excited to finally have a blog! It was very simple to set up, with the help of a good friend. Maryann, Claudia, and myself left Huntington, Wv on Nov 5th at 7:15am. We arrived in Birmingham, Al around 6 or 7 after getting turned around for a little while. We dropped some of my belongings off at Craig and Jennifer Kelley's and headed back down the road a few more hours. We stayed in a hotel about 3 hours from Mandeville, La.
We arrived here at Tammany Oaks Church of Christ around 10:45 am, just a few minutes after church services began.
We spent a leisure day eating out after church and then visiting a family that i helped in the Orleans Parish. We left backpacks for the kids and gave them food and toiletry boxes. We then began driving looking for people to give the rest of our food boxes to. There were some ladies on the street talking and the driver of my van rolled down the window and asked if they needed anything. One lady said she just got back into town and didn't have anything. We got out and this opened up doors for us to talk to several people on the street that were affected by the storms.
Later we walked around the city of New Orleans and visited a cafe called Cafe du Monde. We had coffee(even though i don' t like coffee) and beignets, which are kind like fat small funnel cakes with lots of powdered sugar. They were wonderful.
Several Indiana volunteers that were with us had their volunteer shirts on which brought several opportunities for conversations with new found friends at the cafe. One lady in particular shared with me that she is a counselor at a nereby school where she knows of a 16 year old girl who is living in a moldy house with her parents who are deaf, and a father who is disabled. We took down her info and hope to get to them soon.
God is good and I am so excited to be back in La to see what He would have me do!
We arrived here at Tammany Oaks Church of Christ around 10:45 am, just a few minutes after church services began.
We spent a leisure day eating out after church and then visiting a family that i helped in the Orleans Parish. We left backpacks for the kids and gave them food and toiletry boxes. We then began driving looking for people to give the rest of our food boxes to. There were some ladies on the street talking and the driver of my van rolled down the window and asked if they needed anything. One lady said she just got back into town and didn't have anything. We got out and this opened up doors for us to talk to several people on the street that were affected by the storms.
Later we walked around the city of New Orleans and visited a cafe called Cafe du Monde. We had coffee(even though i don' t like coffee) and beignets, which are kind like fat small funnel cakes with lots of powdered sugar. They were wonderful.
Several Indiana volunteers that were with us had their volunteer shirts on which brought several opportunities for conversations with new found friends at the cafe. One lady in particular shared with me that she is a counselor at a nereby school where she knows of a 16 year old girl who is living in a moldy house with her parents who are deaf, and a father who is disabled. We took down her info and hope to get to them soon.
God is good and I am so excited to be back in La to see what He would have me do!
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