We finished off Friday evening by doing a bit more sightseeing and I finally got to see the trailers with the Rolls Royce parked in front of them that I had been hearing about. Katrina was no respecter of persons.
After dinner we drove up to Kiln to visit with Pete and Fay Jones who were busy helping prepare for 'Christmas in the Kiln' on Saturday. It will have lots of games, activities and of course toys and Santa plus an area the kids can get presents for their parents, which you can see in the picture. I wish we could stay around to help but we need to get home to our boys.
The Jones' will be running Camp Coastal Outpost for volunteer groups coming down. That will be important as time goes on and churches seek to regain control over their facilities. I'm sure some will continue to house work teams for quite a while, but it puts a great strain on those churches. Facilities like the Outpost will be needed to ease the burden and continue to encourage teams to come down by giving them a decent place to stay and be fed. The first month or two will be spent making some of the modular accomodations later groups will stay in. It sounds like it will be a pretty nice setup when it's fully implemented. This may be where I come for my January trip.
We drove back Saturday and took a detour through New Orleans to see what it was like. You really couldn't see anything from I-10 and the bypass on the north side of the city except waterlines and a little gutting debris though it was clear some business areas were not open still like a mall and a Walmart. As expected there wasn't anything like the physical devastation you see in MS. Maybe it's worse by the Superdome or wherever St. Bernard's parish is, which is where the Rainbow people were asked to set up their cafe when they had to leave Waveland. We also decided to stop at Lambert's in Sikeston, MO, to have an early dinner. We listened to Ted Dekker's 'Red' on the way home - book 2 of an excellent trilogy so far. I'm going to get 'White' from the library and actually read it. Gasp!
I'm home for about a month now. My next trip will be the 3rd or 4th week of January. I wish everyone has a very Merry Christmas and that you remember the birth of Jesus Christ at this time (though his real birthday was a couple months ago) rather than all the crap capitalism has thrown into it.
After dinner we drove up to Kiln to visit with Pete and Fay Jones who were busy helping prepare for 'Christmas in the Kiln' on Saturday. It will have lots of games, activities and of course toys and Santa plus an area the kids can get presents for their parents, which you can see in the picture. I wish we could stay around to help but we need to get home to our boys.
The Jones' will be running Camp Coastal Outpost for volunteer groups coming down. That will be important as time goes on and churches seek to regain control over their facilities. I'm sure some will continue to house work teams for quite a while, but it puts a great strain on those churches. Facilities like the Outpost will be needed to ease the burden and continue to encourage teams to come down by giving them a decent place to stay and be fed. The first month or two will be spent making some of the modular accomodations later groups will stay in. It sounds like it will be a pretty nice setup when it's fully implemented. This may be where I come for my January trip.
We drove back Saturday and took a detour through New Orleans to see what it was like. You really couldn't see anything from I-10 and the bypass on the north side of the city except waterlines and a little gutting debris though it was clear some business areas were not open still like a mall and a Walmart. As expected there wasn't anything like the physical devastation you see in MS. Maybe it's worse by the Superdome or wherever St. Bernard's parish is, which is where the Rainbow people were asked to set up their cafe when they had to leave Waveland. We also decided to stop at Lambert's in Sikeston, MO, to have an early dinner. We listened to Ted Dekker's 'Red' on the way home - book 2 of an excellent trilogy so far. I'm going to get 'White' from the library and actually read it. Gasp!
I'm home for about a month now. My next trip will be the 3rd or 4th week of January. I wish everyone has a very Merry Christmas and that you remember the birth of Jesus Christ at this time (though his real birthday was a couple months ago) rather than all the crap capitalism has thrown into it.
posted by Michael Ray at 10:12 AM
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Heh, Lambert's. Nothing like having a roll throwed at you.
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