Right before going to sleep, Virginia wrote in her journal and shared it with us
Day One
3:15 am Wake up
Thankful for a ride to the airport at 4:10am Blessed by all the people who got up early to see us off at 5:30am
Tired, we all boarded a crowded plane, but God gave us the friendliest & most gracious flight attendant I have ever met.
She was eager to hear why we were going to New Orleans.
That was the first time I was hugged by a flight attendant when I departed.
Virginia, with a hug from Rayemanette
Excited to meet up with friends and colleagues of past mission trips.
Appreciative to Grace Community Church for providing our home away from home for 7 days.
Nicest guy, Ryan Kling, our supervisor from ReachGlobal, who after telling us what we are going to be doing during the week, invited us to his place for a hamburger and hot dog dinner.
The Lord has made the day and we rejoice in God’s goodness
For 2018, we will be serving in Denham Springs, LA, just outside of New Orleans, and we will be partnering with ReachGlobal
In 2007, a small team from Evergreensgv.orgpartnered with Habitat for Humanity in Biloxi MS and we were known around our church as the “Katrina Team.” In 2015, in response to tornado devastation in Moore, OK, we felt led to serve in Oklahoma City, once again with Habitat for Humanity.
For 2018, our team feels called to Denham Springs to perform similar rebuilding/recovery construction work, but how we found our new partner is an interesting story .
Over the years, our annual trip has changed in where, who and sometimes even how we serve.
We’ve not always been building new houses, it’s sometimes been doing rebuild and repairs. Our team members have some repeats, but we have often a lot of new faces. Team membership has even grown to include our previous site supervisors from the Habitat affiliates that we befriended.
But we’ve always tried to serve where and how God was leading us, as Craig describes in the video. We prayerfully ask God to lead us, and then we try to have the confidence to take the next step in that direction.
This year, our steps take us into new territory, so we carefully steward your prayers and care, as we again partner with you, serving whomever and however God has in store for all of us, this time in Denham Springs.
Virginia taught about what we’ll be doing in OKC, and how the kids could partner with us and pray for us.
“Auntie” SundayA., the main teacher, did things a little differently this year. She wanted the kids to remember our names, so they could pray for us while we’re gone. That
meant that each team member would have a word associated with their
name and do a hand motion. We weren’t prepared. It was pretty hilarious, and exhausting. One of the team values is “be flexible,” I guess it starts now.
After the intro, the kids prayed for us. It’s always a sweet time. Pam said that one year, one of the kids prayed that the sharks wouldn’t be a problem for us in OKC. As far as we know, the prayer came true.
We have a few new people on the team, three of them having never been on any of our trips before. We thought we’d have them introduce themselves to you. We’d like to introduce you to Virginia, Matt(hew) and Frank
Psst… note:
Habitat for Humanity actually is a Christian organization… although it is open to anyone to volunteer or to receive housing
