Over the next few posts I will delve into my experiences while I was in New Orleans, LA. This was a very humbling experience and I feel that I went in with expectations that we would help someone that was unable to rebuild their home because they were too old, poor, helpless. Instead, I found myself working for a man who was perfectly healthy and told to stay during Hurricane Katrina but because of the effects of the dirty water he has become sick. He is fortunate to still be alive. The Lord has protected him and his family even though he was on the verge of calling it quits he has persevered.
I ask that you remember to pray for all of the work that needs to be done down there. I feel committed to send teams down there until the job is done. This may take several years but with each team there is a family whose life might be change for an eternity. These people have been through hell and some are still living in it. Their way of life has been about family and sticking together, some generations growing up with in a 5 minute walk of four generations. Imagine people telling you to move when the only life you have know has been that of one surrounded by family. To think that they should move is insensitive and we ought to respect their desire to be where their families grew up. These people hate to ask for help but have no other choice but to ask. To give them grace is to love them. They need to tell their stories and we need to hear them. They have seen some rough things and if they can't tell anyone then it will stick with them. So these next posts are mostly the story of one family. But this family's story is the story of many others. I write to remind you that the work is not done yet and that you might hear their stories.
Where we were http://www.stbernardproject.org/id182.html
I ask that you remember to pray for all of the work that needs to be done down there. I feel committed to send teams down there until the job is done. This may take several years but with each team there is a family whose life might be change for an eternity. These people have been through hell and some are still living in it. Their way of life has been about family and sticking together, some generations growing up with in a 5 minute walk of four generations. Imagine people telling you to move when the only life you have know has been that of one surrounded by family. To think that they should move is insensitive and we ought to respect their desire to be where their families grew up. These people hate to ask for help but have no other choice but to ask. To give them grace is to love them. They need to tell their stories and we need to hear them. They have seen some rough things and if they can't tell anyone then it will stick with them. So these next posts are mostly the story of one family. But this family's story is the story of many others. I write to remind you that the work is not done yet and that you might hear their stories.
Where we were http://www.stbernardproject.org/id182.html
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