Christ Church missionaries built walls, laid sub floor, dug postholes, weeded, and smoked out wasps to help bring one New Orleans family closer to living in a home of their own. Tina Cleland, Steven Holbrook, Tom and Norman McKay, Susan Merrill, Eva-Marie Nye, LeePuricelli, Carole O’Toole, Kiera Zitelman, Alison Verdi and Samuel Jones worked on a Habitat for Humanity house in New Orleans’ Central City neighborhood the week of June 17-21. Their journey would not have been possible without the dedication and support of Darleen Lugenbuhl and Phil Padgett.

For two days, our leaders from Habitat and Americorps pushed us to finish building components in time for Thursday morning's wall raising ceremony with the homeowners and sponsors. At the ceremony, we had the opportunity to meet the homeowner Katherine, a single mother who works for the New Orleans Police Department and her sons Jeremiah, 11 months,

Isaiah, 5, Tra, 13 and niece Keisha, a 20 year old education major at University of New Orleans. Her goal is to give her family the stability snd security of a home they own and send her children to college.

To learn more about the family, the rest of our work, where New Orleans stands today - including some of the projects we worked on last year - people called Side Job, Catfish, Turk and Money, a guy in a Keebler elf suit and a very special young man named Sam, please attend the Adult Forum on Sunday, September 28.