One Week!

Hello, world, and welcome to our spiffy little blog. We'll be using this little corner of the web to share with you our experiences from New Orleans.

In case you got here by accident, let's cover a few things:

• Who are we?
  
  We are a group of college students from Community of Christ - St. Luke's (LCMS). Along with our fearless leaders, Pastor Chris and Jaye, we are preparing for a mission trip to New Orleans, Lousiana. If we had pictures, we'd say from left to right, but that aside, introductions: Greta, Heather, Katherine, Michael and Tom. You'll be hearing from all of us on a day-to-day basis.
• What are we doing?
  
  Well, as noted above, we're preparing for a mission trip to New Orleans, LA. We'll be partnering with Youth With a Mission, an international missionary organization, to serve and love the people of New Orleans in whatever way we can as they continue to recover from 2005's Hurricane Katrina. At present, we are planning to gut a house in preparation for reconstruction, distribute food to those in need and meet people in the city. But mission trips rarely go exactly as planned, and wherever Christ calls us to share His love, we will go.
• When are we going?
  
  The title of this post says it all: one week! We leave Sunday, June 15th, from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and arrive in New Orleans on Monday morning. We'll be there for the week and return home on Sunday, June 22nd.

That's all for now. In the coming weeks, please pray for our team and the people of New Orleans as we all prepare to see what God does in the Big Easy.

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