Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Jesus, Justice & Jazz

It's all a memory now. The national youth gathering is over. A great time was had by all. I say thank you to those of you who took their cameras and took pictures....and thank you because I'm stealing all these pictures from you...LOL!!

These are in no particular order...I'm being lazy tonite!! (The captions are before the picture...jsyk)

Houses marked this way after inspections from hurricane devastation. The top is the date, left is who checked the home, right is how many pets were found dead and bottom is how many people were found dead

Water mark

Scott and Ingrid, 2 of the 3 chaperones. Adam loved them both! Scott was one of Adam's roommates. He is a Vicar at one of the Lutheran churches nearby

See what I mean about the orange shirts, Jamie?!!!?

On the plane. That's Carlo hugging Adam...not sure why!

Just a neat pic!

Downtown New Orleans

Who's under that mask?!?!?!?

Getting ready to leave on their trip...taken at 6:30 in the morning...they actually look half awake...LOL!!

Krista and Adam

Michelle, Jim, Jessie and Adam....Jim moved down to Biloxi to help re-build houses after Katrina. Originally Jim planned on being a chaperone for this gathering until he took this new job. He and his wife drove over to New Orleans to meet our kids for breakfast on Saturday morning.

Jessie and Adam....they go waayy back, they've known each other since they were toddlers at church. Jessies likes to talk about how she pushed Adam off the piano bench many years ago in the one Sunday School room. I think she'd have a rough time accomplishing that NOW...LOL!!

The inside of one of the houses in New Orleans...devastating.

Their first day there on a boat ride

At breakfast on Saturday with Jim and Michelle. From L to R: Adam, Carlo, Meghan and Ingrid

This says it all

Touring a cemetery

Dinner the last night

Our kids wrote the name of their church and hometown on these clothespins. You then secretly clipped them to someone, which hopefully they found later!

I'm guessing this is fake, but not 100% sure about that!

Cool pic!!

2 comments:

Sue said...

Nice pics Michele thanks for sharing. It is so sad what a natural disaster can do to a town and how long it can take to rebuild. I am so proud of all the people that have helped. Thank you Adam!

Jamie said...

that first pic is sad...i'm glad the pic is of zero dead but i'm sure too many others had higher numbers =(