Heavy Hearts

We all left New Orleans and the Good News Camp with Heavy Hearts. Not because we had no hope that the city would recover (although this is a real question) but because given the chance we'd have stayed longer.

I think you can tell if a trip has been good / right with the following question, "have I left part of me there?" I think for all of us who went on the trip the answer to this is a resounding yes, part of us will always be in New Orleans, with it's warm and resilient people and with the staff of Good News Camp with whom we connected with in a special way.

They will leave Good News Camp when it closes at the beginning of August. The board who run the park want the parking lot back, so Good News Camp will close. Sharky was mad when this was first announced, but then the lights of the mini-league pitches a block away came on. He cried when he saw the lights, tears of hope perhaps as a glimmer of normal life shone in the desolation. So the parking lot returning to a place for those going to the football games in the stadium is also a small sign that some sense of normality is returning to New Orleans.

The staff team will got to Houston to be part of Christian World Embassy to be part of their first response team to disasters.

So ended our trip in New Orleans.

I'm away on family holiday for a couple of weeks but on my return will post some of the stories of the people we met on the trip.

Comments

[steve hollinghurst]

brodie
clealry some important work and expereinces going on. holiday sounds needed! thanks for letting us know what's going on in a largely forgotten tragedy.

oh and are you going to greenbelt?

[Dougie Lochhead]

Hi Brodie

Thanks for the update - we were praying for you guys - seeing the photos really brings a reality check to me when I'm working over here a "Christian resort". It surprises me so much that the devasation has been forgotten about by the media and it's because of folks like you that the Light is truely taken into the world.