Operation Faith in Action - Hurricane Katrina Relief Trip

I just wanted to make a quick report from my trip to Mississippi. We arrived back home (Ankeny, IA) at about 12 midnight Friday Sep. 16th after spending 8 days down in Ocean Springs, MS on the Gulf of Mexico.
Grace Independent Baptist Church and Academy, Ocean Springs, was our base camp for the week.

We worked in there gym/ "warehouse shopping center" sometimes a lot through the week and mostly when they needed an extra hand. The picture below is just a portion of the gym.






The other time was spent handing out supplies, cutting down trees, removing appliances from homes, cutting out drywall and insulation and in some cases gutting the whole house.





At right is just a typical scene on some of the streets near the gulf.

It was quite and experience seeing first hand the devistation of the area. It is late and have been traveling for almost 18 hours in a van so I am going to keep this one short. I will add more content and pictures later!








Thanks for all the prayers! drue