Well, it's been a long and productive Day 6 here in New Orleans East. Today, all of the groups worked long and hard to try to complete as much as possible before we leave on Saturday. We worked so hard I'm sitting all alone in the Olive Tree Village Dining Hall while everyone has headed to bed. Each of our homes are so much closer to being ready for the residents to move in, we can't help but get

Day 5 was definitely the day we all hit a wall. You can see the difference in the energy at the beginning of the day from Monday to today. It took us quite a bit longer to get through breakfast, our chores and get out to the prayer circle to hit the work. Of course, once we got to our sites, we were ready to go! We've been working at the same site for the past three days, and we can see so much

Day 4 of the Mission Trip was another day of work. It was a bit short because the Nebraska-North Carolina contingent were heading into the French Quarter (which also explains why this blog is so late). Not too many work highlights from the day...

- Doug and Ed's group starting laying down tile and floor having conquered the leveling of the concrete floors.

- Adam really enjoyed "destroying lots of

Today was our first day of work. The ladies got an early start at 5:45 to fix the Village biscuits and gravy.  Turns out they hadn't gotten much sleep the night before, but they're still going strong tonight!  The weather report for the week shows 90-100 degree weather, the heat index well above 100 and no rain in sight.

We were given an orientation this morning by "Project Homecoming," a program

We are here at Olive Tree Village in New Orleans safe and sound.  After the thunderstorm this morning, we had a sunny day as we followed the same highway into town.  For those of you who travelled these bridges and highways in the past, you'd be amazed by the newer look at all the houses and buildings on each side of the highway.  New roofs can be seen throughout each neighborhood, and fresh

It was a beautiful day for a drive through the midwest.  We left the church at 7:00 with Dorothy Norton's sugar cookies, the Sheltons' good wishes and a vus full of excited people.  We all settled in with our books and our headphones and enjoyed a relaxing drive down to Memphis.  We made it to a rest area just south of St. Louis when someone (we won't menton who) left the vus running with the air