Making Headway

The mission trip members had a good and hard day of work yesterday. The are working on a house in Bay St. Louis on the gulf coast of Mississippi that was partially constructed by the family that will be living in it. Currently six family members from three generations are living in one FEMA trailer. Initially they had two trailers, but this past year Hurricane Gustav wiped out one of them, forcing all six of them into one very crowded trailer.

After Hurricane Katrina destroyed their home, they began to build the current one, but ran out of money to complete it. It is on twelve foot pilings and one of the things that the team did yesterday was to insulate the underside of it. They put up drywall, dug a thirty foot trench for sewer pipes, and did some cleaning up as well.

Today a couple of the team members are staying back at Camp Gospel where they are being housed to do cooking for the our team as well as several other teams who are staying there. All together there are about sixty people at the camp. Others are doing cleaning both inside and outside and hoping that they can begin painting on Wednesday. Their goal which they think they have a good chance of meeting is to finish the house by Friday afternoon.