I AM CREATING SOMETHING NEW. DO YOU SEE IT?
     I HAVE PUT ROADS IN DESERTS, STREAMS IN THIRSTY LANDS.
- ISAIAH 43:19

Presbytery Mission Trip to New Orleans
January 2010

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Abandoned houses next door

Bill at the wall

Dan fascinates Nichelle

Ginna helps Peter and Dan


Kerry and Kelly Buell, volunteer managers of Olive Tree, and the managers in 2009 at Houma

Leslie learns to smooth concrete

Looking good - one new window

Lunch break

Miss Velma and her great-granddaughter

Miss Velma's house

Peter, Leslie, and Dan under the house

Pink tents represent houses lost to the hurricane

Talking to Miss Ruby

The bleak landscape behind the levee

The levee at the Lower 9th Ward

The side yard, almost as wide as the house

Third apartment where we worked

Water was as high as the stop sign

We left our mark on the Olive Tree sign post

We left this shirt inside Olive Tree

Photos Courtesy of Mary Lee Talbot

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