Day 4 - Friday: "Let's get dirty
let's get used... Come on and serve somebody" Peter
Mayer House Band
We left for the Superdome at 7:00 a.m. still a
little sleepy from the night's activities. There we
waited to load charter buses for our Servant Life.
We are in "small groups" of 12,000 every day. Our
bus leader told us this is the first event of this
kind ever. It would
take the City of New Orleans over four years to do
what will be accomplished in three days by the
gathering participants.
Our work site was Eisenhower Elementary School where
we painted two classrooms (in record time) and some
odd jobs around the school. The youth all worked
hard and did a great job, one they can be very
proud.
On the way back to the hotel our bus took a detour
through the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans to see
firsthand the devistation left by Katrina five years
after the storm. We saw homes still boarded up and
abandoned. We even saw a few new homes. But what was
so overwhealming was empty lots with driveways and
front steps, but no house - gone.
Today was some much needed perspective of why we are
here in the first place - to share and receive hope
in the name of the risen Christ. The speakers
tonight echoed that hope.
We arrived at the dome early to get good seats. So
did everybody else. The youth did get on the
floor and the atmosphere was electric. Most of our
youth have heard the group Skillet at Winter Jam,
but tonight was their night at the gathering, and it
was a favorite.
Peace.
Mount Hermon LCY
Jesus+Justice+Jazz
Preparing to leave
for Servant Life.
A job well done.
Lower Ninth Ward.
Where a home once stood.
Dome celebration.
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