Where the team is working today

Here is a map of where our team has been working today. They left the remaining and still soaked portion of Crowder Road Church of Christ to dry out and have been working in a culdusac nearby, one block off of lake Pontchartrain in East New Orleans.

It's important to note that while power has been restored to most areas, most individual houses still are not on due to water damage even when there is power in the neighborhood.

One of the residents on the culdusac has been working with the Operation Nehemiah while living in Batton Rouge. He started bringing volunteers into the culdusac to clean up one Carrolton Avenue church member's house, then another from Crowder Boulevard CofC and someone else came home so they cleaned out that house. Our team was there to complete two that had been started and also cleaned out a third house.

Tim Hines who is one of those heading up the Tammany Oaks effort and building a permanent disaster relief organization down there told me today that of all the members of all the Churches of Christ in New Orleans, only 80 are still there, 65 of those at Carrolton Avenue where the housing was less damaged.