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In the Kitchen
Enclosing the Old Porch
1311 Salem Avenue, Roanoke
Church Sign When We Left
George
Debbie
Peg
Jim
Linda
Peter and Kevin
Edd
Tom
The Workers (See audience on right.)
New Showers
Rose Ann at work
JoEllen
Deb concentrates
Don with that sly smile
Eric zipping along
Roland
Edd at Work
Front Room Work
Men's Room Work
Casa del Pueblo
Men's Shower Room
Ladies' Room Entry
Flooring, Painting, etc., Needed
Casa del Pueblo Sanctuary
Royden and Lina's House
Rebuilding in Biloxi after Katrina
Line Dancing at Waveland
An ever-growing team of volunteer home builders committed to making a difference
In the Kitchen
Enclosing the Old Porch
1311 Salem Avenue, Roanoke
Church Sign When We Left
George
Who We Are
We began as a group of mishuggeneh friends (which explains why our earlier name was "Misfits") who helped to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina and had support from the various Christian congregations to which most of us belonged. Through time, as we volunteered more, our group grew. Now, larger and more spread out (hence NYS and +), we are still committed to helping the Gulf Coast area, NOLA and other projects closer to home. The spiritual dimension of our work takes place both before we leave for our work site(s) in the morning and in the evening as we gather after dinner to reflect on our day.
Debbie
Peg
Jim
Linda
Peter and Kevin
Edd
See More Pictures
Click HERE to see photos from recent rebuilding mission trips to New Orleans, Louisiana, and Washington, D.C.
Hope
"Here's what I've decided: the very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."
-- Barbara Kingsolver
-- Barbara Kingsolver
Tom
Shaped by Pain
"In our world with its hungry and homeless and hopeless, it is pathological to live as if pain did not exist. The way of the cross means letting pain carve one's life into a channel through which the healing stream of the spirit can flow to a world in need."
-- Parker Palmer
-- Parker Palmer
The Workers (See audience on right.)
Hope
"Hope, I believe is a continuum. It isn't one unitary thing. 'I hope' on one end of the spectrum may be nothing more than a wish for something. "I have hope" is on the other end. It is something more tangible and is rooted in the belief system of an individual and comes out of some personal experience in the here and now."
-- George, The Cook
-- George, The Cook
New Showers
Hope
"I try to remember that I am anchored to the source of love and though being tossed about I can trust that I'm being held securely and will eventually be quieted. Talking with a close friend, singing, giving myself permission to step out of the situation for a while are some concrete ways of felling that anchor of hope again."
-- Betty
-- Betty
Rose Ann at work
Hope
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out. It is hope, above all, which gives us the strength to live and continually try new things."
-- Vaclav Havel
-- Vaclav Havel
JoEllen
Hope
"Hope is the belief things can turn out better than we have any reason to expect."
-- Bruce Brynolfson
-- Bruce Brynolfson
Deb concentrates
Hope
"Hope is the thing with feathers,
which perches in the soul,
and sings the tune without words,
and never stops at all."
-- Emily Dickinson
which perches in the soul,
and sings the tune without words,
and never stops at all."
-- Emily Dickinson
Don with that sly smile
Eric zipping along
Roland
Edd at Work
Front Room Work
Men's Room Work
Spring Work Project Pictures
Casa del Pueblo
Men's Shower Room
Ladies' Room Entry
Flooring, Painting, etc., Needed
Casa del Pueblo Sanctuary
Fall Project
Royden and Lina's House
Winter of 2006
Rebuilding in Biloxi after Katrina
Opportunities This Fall
We will be working in New Orleans this Oct/Nov and staying in the First Presbyterian Church. Please select which weeks or week you plan on helping out. As a courtesy to the church we need to do this before Sept. 1st, so that they can welcome other groups, space permitting.
Week One -- Oct. 21 -- 27
Week Two -- Oct. 28 -- Nov. 3
Week Three -- Nov. 4 -- 10
Week One -- Oct. 21 -- 27
Week Two -- Oct. 28 -- Nov. 3
Week Three -- Nov. 4 -- 10
Local Opportunities
We want to do more locally, where more of us can participate, where there is not so much travel involved. The three most viable options that we see includes:
Rensselaer County Habitat for Humanity (RCHFH)
Fulton/Montgomery County Flood Recovery
Mission in the North Country (MINC)
When specific information becomes available a planning team will decide how and when we can respond. You will then be made aware of it via email and on this Blog.
Rensselaer County Habitat for Humanity (RCHFH)
Fulton/Montgomery County Flood Recovery
Mission in the North Country (MINC)
When specific information becomes available a planning team will decide how and when we can respond. You will then be made aware of it via email and on this Blog.
Fall 2006
Line Dancing at Waveland
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