earth to bethlehem... can you hear us??

after an interesting church service, we drove out to D'iverville to have lunch at the house of a lady that David helped build on his first mission trip down to the D'iverville Volunteer Camp

The food was delicious and the story was amazing... and while we listened to one person's story, some of us practiced our southern accents...

After which we made the obligatory trip Wal-Mart run and a good drive along the shore line...

which was beautiful... but along the other side...

evidence of the destruction was loud and clear

personally so far the most stirring aspect of the landscape is the driveway outlets on the side of the roads that lead nowhere... or lead to a pad of concrete... which you know used to be someone's house before the hurricane

Here at Camp Coast Care each of the groups that comes leaves a plaque of some sort on the wooden poles... we are still in the planning stages of our master piece

the biggest challenges we have meet so far are adjusting the sweet tea, spilling bread pudding in the rental car, and getting to changed airport gates on time... we aren't looking for trouble, but i'm sure it's going to find us ;P

Elizabeth (with the full committee)