A Safe Arrival

The mission team meeting in front of
Aldersgate UMC in Slidell.

We made it! We understand you folks back home have had some snow and cold. We had cold weather most of the way down but the roads were clear and traffic from Tennessee to here wasn't bad. The team managed to eat a lot of the cookies donated to us so we finally had to switch to something healthy like apples and oranges. But don't fear, there are still cookies, Carmel Corn, and other donated goodies for us, thanks to all of you. We got to Slidell about 3:30 P.M.  with sunny skies and a temperature of 60 degrees!

The camp is almost full.

No, that's not the house we are to repair.
It's one of many foundations left abandoned
after Hurricane Katrina.

There are groups from Janesville Wisconsin and Tulsa Oklahoma with us. After we selected our beds (we were the last group in so we got the slim pickings of the genuine wooden bunk beds) we unpacked and took a tour of Slidell. We drove out by the waterfront and looked at some of the areas that have been repaired and those still abandoned after Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Issac. We thought we should celebrate our safe trip so as good Methodists we all went out to dinner and had good Louisiana seafood. Devotions begin at 6:45 A.M. and breakfast at 7.We're all looking forward to a week that will involve some hard work but will offer us a chance to serve Christ by serving others.