Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, It's Off to Work We Go...

The Green Team left the church at 8:40 for St. Bernard's Parish, a drug and alcohol rehab and outreach center where they moved supplies and helped restock shelves.  After lunch back at the church, they headed out to the NOLA (New Orleans Louisiana) church plant site.  A group of ministers who live in the Gentilly area of New Orleans, one of the areas worst hit by Hurricane Katrina, wanted to start a vibrant and thriving church staffed by ministers who actually live there.  One minister bought a house that had been severely damaged in the hurricane, and he needed help fixing it up.  The Green Team spent the entire afternoon painting his new house and helping to make it livable.

The Gold Team left the at 9:30 for the New Orleans Mission, the major “soup kitchen” and outreach center for New Orleans.  The group put together new shelves for the food pantry and rearranged the food.  After lunch at the mission, the group headed to Capdau Charter School.  The school has moved twice in the last year, and all of their boxes that the moving company dropped off were piled floor to ceiling in one big room.  The team had to sort through all of the boxes and take them to the appropriate classrooms.

The Purple Team left at 8:40 for Bethel Colony.  This team of all women and girls moved filing cabinets across the parking lot all morning to prepare for the grand opening of a new thrift store.  After their lunch back at the church, the Purple Team went to the Boys and Girls Club to play with the kids.  They certainly got more than they bargained for with their inner city group of munchkins and all of their street-smart, potty-mouth ways.