day 3 afternoon wrap

I'm really getting the impression that our work here is sticking with our group-both students and adults. Evidenced by their attitudes and comments, God is working in the hearts of our team members. It's amazing that we can drive three short hours and get to a place that is so remotely different from what we're used to. Ironically, this same sort of lifestyle exists very close to home for us.

I can say this for sure: God has stretched each person on this mission...emotionally and spiritually. we have come to a place that has a reputation for being dangerous and sinful....a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah of sorts....but I see the hearts of our people being softened to the actual faces that comprise New Orleans. At the end of the day, these are people who Jesus died for and who are completely worthy of our attention and love. We have Hope and it's our responsibility to take that to
all nations, to quote various scriptures. I pray that God will use this to spark a passion to carry Christ to others who need hope.

Here's our afternoon wrap from two student's perspective...

For our afternoon Kid's Club, we had to go to another park. The park across the street was never unlocked by the police. We went a few streets over to a smaller park and did our Kid's Club. We played basketball and football with them and also blew bubbles, colored, and played with them on the playground. The kids trusted us more today than yesterday because they didn't think we were coming back for another day. When we came back today, they were excited and ran up to us when we showed up! Brother Cory taught the gospel with salvation bracelets. One kid remembered what Papa Don taught yesterday. It was amazing that they remembered because it seems like some of them weren't listening. Today's Kid's Club really was great.....we also challenged them to bring as many of their friends as possible tomorrow for our last day. One kid said he was going to bring 10 friends because that's how many he has! We walked some of the kids home and went and bought icebergs for a snack (frozen Kool-Aid).

We went out to Bubba Gump's restaurant tonight. Some of us got light-up glasses with slushies called Lemon-Ups. We told the waitress that it was Sam's birthday. They brought him a sundae and sang a weird song to him. I think he was embarrassed. We all wore our mission trip t-shirts....one lady said she liked our shirts.

Kylie Thompson and Hannah Tuttle