October 9th team to Gulfport

The team leaving on October 9th consists of David Mahan, Phil Brand, Leonel Perez, David Corson, Paul Cobb, Kelly Lohman and Brian Wright. We will be commissioned at the 8:30 service and leave immediately after that.

We will working in a camp run by Presbyterian Disaster Assistance in Gulfport, Mississippi. The camp is located on the grounds of the Orange Grove Presbyterian Church. We will be living in tents with cots. We will be responsible for preparing our own food and are taking a supply of Meals Ready to Eat (MRE) and bottled water. There are also restaurants open in the area and Home Depot and Lowes are nearby and open.

As we understand it, our primary work will be doing debris removal including cutting up trees, hauling furniture out of houses and the like. The area where we will be working is supposed to be about 20 minutes away from the camp.

We plan on returning on Saturday October 15th.

We are grateful to all the people in the church who have helped us so much in preparing for this trip. Thanks!

If we can get reliable internet service ( and we are not too tired!) we will be posting every day including pictures of where we are working.

Please pray for us that we may be instruments of God's love to the people affected by the storm.