Team 6 - Wednesday's Work Report

Tammany Oaks hosted a total of 80 people last night including our team. Others were from Kokomo Indiana, Huntsville, Alabama, Missouri, Virginia and other locales. 20 more joined from Colorado tonight with more expected from New Jersey.

Some of our team worked laying the 2nd floor decking in the new building and cutting trees, but most of them are working to muck out the flooded Crowder Boulevard Church of Christ in the Upper 9th Ward seen here, before the storm.

Cement pillars and a brick wall inside the church were pushed into the auditorium. The crew removed all the debris, pews, etc from the auditorium and 5 classrooms today with 15 more classrooms to go.

They are working with Gregory Hamilton, an elder at the church that had a membership of 150 before the storm. Only 8 of their people, including kids and elderly, are able to live in the New Orleans area currently so he was very happy to have so much outside help with the church building. He's also working to clean up his house that got 5 feet of water.

Fortunately the Northland church bus has already had it's can't miss visit to the mechanic. This trip it was just a couple of rebar holes in the back tires that have been patched. Should be good to go for the rest of the trip!

Melinda McGuire