NOLA Day 3

Sorry to have missed posting last night. A weird schedule and late night thunderstorm limited our access to the internet. So today we’re lacking our student impressions for the moment. But here’s a look at how Wednesday went:

• Our “Roaming” team started the day by joining the staff at Cafe Reconcile for breakfast. They’re a presence-based ministry that mentors at-risk youth and teaches job skills. We ate with them, and joined their discussion about what it means to be a success. Check out reconcileneworleans.com to learn more about them–it’s an awesome ministry.
• Meanwhile, the Maddies Day Care team headed back to Maddies. They’re cooking on the painting projects. They sometimes have a little trouble keeping their paint on the walls and off of each other. But they’re mostly keeping things clean and being very productive. They’re job descriptions keep growing as they’ve expanded from scraping and painting one room, to painting and scraping two rooms, to painting and scraping two rooms and doing various maintenance projects around the facility.
• After breakfast, the roaming team spent some time prayer walking the neighborhood around Cafe Reconcile–the area they’d be in Monday. They spoke with some of the friends they’d made Monday, and felt that even their limited presence was somehow making a difference in that community. With some extra time, they picked up some popsicles and visited the folks over at Maddies.
• The afternoon found the roaming team back at the lot in the 9th Ward. It’s been rough going. We’ve had a lot of bug bites, some hornet stings, a lot of scrapes, and poured a ton of sweat into that swamp. The team is a little relieved that Thursday has us working elsewhere. We enjoy our work and see what the benefit is… but could use a little break from it.
• Last night the entire team went to the French Quarter… and had beignets at Cafe Du Monde! We got to see what many of the students called “the real New Orleans” in the architecture and people of the French Quarter.
• Last night’s team de-brief time got pretty emotional. Folks are feeling God moving… and some are just feeling strained. The students are tremendous at ministering to one another. But please pray that we’re able to be patient in witnessing God’s presence and that peace rules in our little team.

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