Week One in New Orleans

We arrived in New Orleans last Saturday evening and just finished our first week working with a Crisis Response Team. It has been a great week so far. Our days have been full and we have slept hard each night. We have met many new people during this week as well.

Sam was the site supervisor for a team painting a house called the "Yellow House". The Yellow House is where the teams stay during their time in New Orleans and it was in need of a paint job. We both spent the week working with this team and we will do the same thing next week with a new team (we didn't quite get the job done).

We painted and painted during the day and in the afternoon we either took part in an activity with local kids living in the projects or led prayer walks in a neighborhood. The other teams here this week were spread out all over the city at various houses doing different projects. We worked with a great group of people from a church in Pennsylvania who worked hard painting and connecting with people in the community.

Tomorrow we get a day off and are planning to head down to the French Quarter with Aaron and Michelle before we jump into another work week. We'll write more about what we have seen and experienced later on this week.