Wisconsin to Katrina Missions

We are volunteers from St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Baraboo Wisconsin with the mission to help the people of Pass Christian Mississippi with their recovery efforts from hurricane Katrina. Please use this blog to follow us as we go about this calling and meet the people who need so much because they have lost so much. Not every one is blessed with the time to make these trips, but your prayers and support and welcomed.

Saturday, March 11, 2006

We are all here. Now let’s define all and here. Our group from Baraboo all arrived safely. Yvonne and were the first ones here about one in the afternoon. We cleared an area and set up the cots etc. for our 18 people and they were all here before dinner. Lance brought 3 people with him in two cars but, about an hour from Pass Christian, his car’s rear wheel bearing didn’t want to play any more. Long story short, Brad P. had to go pick him up and they didn’t get here until about 10 pm. Frazzled but safe.

Now it’s about 11pm and everyone’s all tucked in and …… more incoming! About 52 students from University of Nebraska pulled in to join us in the library. Oh, I forgot to mention there are over 400 students from over 15 universities spending their break time here with us, or maybe it’s us with them, helping the people of Pass Christian. Of course they are not all in the library. Campus Crusade for Christ has set up huge tents for most of the crowd. For those of you that were here before, yes they also quadrupled the bathrooms and added some port-a-potties. (But the same number of showers!)

Some of the schools represented here this week are: Miami Universitiy, Baylor, Arizona State, U. of Mississippi, Purdue, Universitiy. of Iowa, Cleveland State, Case Western, Universitiy of Georgia, Universitiy of Southern Calif., Daemen College Universitiy of Texas and of course the newly arrived Universitiy of Nebraska plus maybe some more I missed.

3 Comments:

At 12:54 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jim!
We're grateful you all got there safe and sound. Dean Skare should be arriving sometime today pulling a trailor filled with all the goodies we collected here at the church.
He's a drywalled...not able any longer to lift the wallboard himself but would be a great teamleader showing college kids what to do!
We're keeping you all in our prayers!
Pastor Deb

 
At 8:00 PM, Anonymous Phil Crawford said...

Hi Jim,
Good to be reading the blog again. I wish I could be with you and the group. I have a bunch of photos from our first trip I would be glad to share if you want. E-mail me your address and I will send a disk. God Bless you guys. Be safe

 
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