Habitat for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge in partnership with the National Ministries, American Baptist Churches, USA Progressive National Baptist Convention, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, District of Columbia Baptist Convention, Alliance of Baptists, Baptist World Aid and Canadian Baptist Ministries will build 12 houses in 12 days for families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The 2007 Baptist Blitz Build will take place April 23 thru May 5 in three locations in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Over 400 Baptists from across the United States and Canada will lend their good hands and hearts to building homes for those who lost everything during Hurricane Katrina.
We will keep a daily blog along with photos of our two week adventure. Stay tuned for all the blisters, sweat, tears and laughs.
We will keep a daily blog along with photos of our two week adventure. Stay tuned for all the blisters, sweat, tears and laughs.
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So, its wednesday night.. it is hard to believe we are leaving in less than 29 hours!! Im sooo stoked. Its going to be a long trip from Ontario, Canada.. but way worth it. . o.. i uh.. better go pack!!
MUCH LOVE <><
The day started with a simple ceremony in which each the hands of each house leader were washed as a symbol of the momentous undertaking about to begin. After a brief safety meeting, it was time to get underway. Under the watchful eye of the volunteer house leader, high school students, retirees, school teachers, pastors, and other volunteers worked side by side under the hot Louisiana sun. They braced up walls, drove nails, held ladders – in short, they performed whatever task was asked of them. In the amount of time that those teenagers would have normally spent in school, a house had taken shape where an empty cement slab had stood only that morning. True, there was no roof and the walls were not finished but there was no doubt that it was beginning to resemble a house. Actually, those bare studs and window openings stood for so much more than just a place to live. This house meant a chance to start over, a safe place to live; for Tangela Coston and her four children, this house represented hope.
Mary Jo Laupp
Greenfield Baptist Church, ABC USA
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