Next week is Spring Break and you know what that means! What? No. Vacation? Who takes a vacation on Spring Break?! We’re going on a mission trip!

We had plans to return to Galveston to rebuild in the wake of Hurricane Ike. But the ministry with which we were going to work had some funding issues so we had to make a quick change of plans. Our missions coordinator got in touch with the churches we worked with in New Orleans a couple of years ago. They’ve still got plenty of work to do rebuilding the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. (Can you believe that?! Five and half years after the storm!)

Plans are still very fluid (even more than usual), but it looks like we are going to be insulating and sheet-rocking a house that has stood stripped to the studs for four years.

As a perk, we will be able, on Sunday afternoon, to visit many of the homes and people we helped on the 2007 and 2008 trips.

Last night, while looking for some unrelated files on my backup hard drive, I stumbled across the raw video from our 2007 trip. It was more emotional that I expected. It stirred up those feelings of sadness for the loss and joy for the help and hope we were able to bring. It’s going to be a great trip.

As usual, please pray.