A side trip to Camp Coast Care

Viewing a different face of the same disaster

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

8:30 p.m.

We are at Camp Coast Care at Long Beach on the Mississippi Gulf Coast with about 150 other people of all shapes and sizes. Last evening, we celebrated the Eucharist at Christ Episcopal Church, Bay St. Louis in a Quonset hut at the same location where Paul took the picture of the bell tower last fall on assignment for World Vision USA.

Bell tower remains at Christ Episcopal Church, Bay St. Louis, MS, mid-October 2005

Today, we did various tasks, from cleaning bathrooms to chopping vegetables. Paul learned that installing windows in brick houses is not as easy as installing them in wood-frame houses. He almost called Bob, his former employer and construction mentor.



I met a couple of people who are just now returning to what is left of their homes. In many cases, that's nothing.

The Lenten desert can be a lonely place. It also is not without humor, I've found, especially today.

Thanks for keeping us in your prayers.

Mindy and Paul