senior high mission experience : day five

wednesday was a full day of gutting homes. my particular group was finishing up the house we started the day before. the target was to finish as early as possible and join the other teams on a "big" house. after finishing up the "small house" we moved over to the bigger home where we found allen pulling off wood wall boards with all hands cleaning and gutting the house. being the big house, there were many rooms, so there were groups tackling each room. as the work progressed we found more and more stuff... some might use the word "pack rat" for the homeowner.

since it was wednesday we headed over to mount olivet church for evening prayers and dinner. on the menu was an assortment of locally made po'boys. it was a little more lax this time at church and we hung out talking with some of the members. before it got dark we ran around the neighborhood and circulated flyers inviting people the church's vacation bible school, which will be held next week.

after we closed out our time with mount olivet we made a little stop at what the locals call "the city of the dead" or for us not so local folks, a cemetary. it was one of our encounter moments of reflecting on how we live our life and what it stands for. not to mention, the cemetaries in new orleans are so unique it was a crazy place to be.

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