New Day....New Church

This morning we met up with Rev. Middleton from Pleasant Hill and he wanted us to help at his mothers's house today. After driving over there and seeing the total destruction of a house, it was decided that No work could be done on the house. Basically, no one had stepped in the house in over 2 years. There was still food in the refrigarator, which was sitting upside down in the kitchen. So what did we do, take the day off you think....NO way.
About the same time we were getting a little somber about the day and trip, Rob from Ignite/HimNi called and asked if we could spare a few to help with his church. Rob is working on restarting a church in Uptown off of Magazine Street called Valence Baptist Church. It is pretty cool story and I will go in depth later. But right now, just know we worked all day the church, which did not get flooded from Katrina but no less had not been touched or cleaned up since the storm. We cleaned, we mowed, we pulled weeds, we got dirty. The awesome part about the whole day was as we worked people from the neighborhood would come up and want to help, want to know about the church and really wanted to know when the church was going to open back up. It has been dead for about 12 years. Rob was blown away by the reaction of the area, and we got to be there as the first group in and really be involved in the rebuilding of what could be a very special church.

Well it is time to go to dinner so I better get dressed and meet up with the group.