Planting hope
This pickup carrying Lutherans was spotting driving town Tenneessee Ave. in the historic Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. How did I know they were Lutheran? Youth Gathering teens wear orange T-shirts on their work project day. The shirts say,...
Servants’ Departure
Lutheran youth have been pouring by the thousands into ServantLife projects throughout the city. Listen to their thoughts on service as they go out to do God’s work with their hands:
Downtime
While waiting at the downtown convention center, a group attending the 2009 Youth Gathering plays cards. * * * * *
A North Carolina thriller
Julie Swan’s group worked in the Lower Ninth Ward today. That’s a predominantly African American area not far from one of the levees that failed. The death and destruction was so massive that many people have not been able to...
Our hands. God’s work?
Tom Powell (left) and Patrick Allen (right) were of different minds after their work project Friday. Allen’s disappointment was obvious. His group had spent the day clearing litter and weeds from a neighborhood still recovering from the wrath of Hurricane...