PPC Returns to New Orleans for Mission Trip

“Thanks to volunteers like you all, I’ll be able to bring my family back to New Orleans.” This comment came up in a conversation with Mario, the homeowner of a Habitat for Humanity house our mission team worked on the week of Nov. 2, 2009.

For the fourth year, Pinnacle Presbyterian Church sent a work team to the Gulf Coast in response to the continuing human needs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Our team of 16 “Pinnaclers” was hosted by St. Charles Ave. Presbyterian Church and worked for a week at Ferry Place, a Habitat for Humanity neighborhood of 14 homes in New Orleans. Our homeowner, Mario, works as a grocery clerk and currently lives with his mother. The rest of his family is still temporarily relocated with his wife’s family in Jamaica.

Our team had the satisfaction of not only completing the exterior of the home, but also helping to restore a community, reunite a family and view the continued improvements in neighborhoods throughout New Orleans. Additionally, our volunteers were graciously hosted by the St. Charles Ave. church congregation, fed by its members and invited into their homes. It reminded everyone on the trip that we are not alone, but are all connected in the body of Christ.

Here are photos from the mission trip. To see a larger version, click on one of the photos below. Then click the right side of the larger image to continue to the next.

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