<p>After a day of poor weather on Sunday, we hit the ground running on Monday with a wakeup call at 5:45am and breakfast @ 6am. From there, group 2 got to take a nap while we shuttled group 1 to their three separate worksites. Between refurbishing building materials at Old City restoration, painting the exterior of homes in the historic Treme district where Louis Armstrong was born, and finishing a home on Dupree Street there was plenty of work to go around. Group 2 had a team meeting at St Paul's homecoming center to discuss work plans. We learned that we would be scraping & painting a shelter on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. We all worked very hard the first day and also prayed hard with each person taking 30 minutes to rest, pray, and read Gods word in the "prayer chair." Our specific crew worked on the shelter, which was sitting at the foot of the dikes surrounding Lake Pontchartrain. This building had most likely been built by the army corps of engineers during construction of the dikes and then turned over to private groups. St Pauls is planning to use it as a shelter for homeless individuals to stay in. The structure had white paint on the surface, but as we scraped we uncovered layer upon layer of colorful paints. As one student remarked, "I would love to have seen the building with the bright shade of red on it!" Peeling &scraping paint for hours will make you nostalgic for sure... A local water management truck helped us clean the mud out of the bathrooms with their pump truck and thanked our crew for helping. The people of New Orleans are extremely proud and resilient and continue to fight for their way of life. We ended our day with some time with Dwayne, the Director of Annunciation Mission, who spoke with us about the importance of volunteers in the rebuilding of Nola. Please continue to pray for the gospel to take hold in the streets of New Orleans, that the people would see Christians leading the charge for this fair city.
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