Be flexible and have a servant heart.

Hi from Ocean Springs, MS. Team Leader Gena here. Just a quick update for you all. Thanks for reading the blog, we appreciate you following along with our adventure this week!

The team is well and doing great together. I am blessed with a truly kind and generous group.

Gretchen and Chris think about their family and kids often, and wonder how they are fairing w/o "Mom." They are doing GREAT and say "HI" to their friends and family! Maureen misses her babies (Millie and Mackie) and I, too, am missing Randall! Dan and Eric are/our two-pees-in-a-pod, and a great balance to the 7 females. HI to their families, I hope they make you proud! My mom, Bonnie, is doing well, but not missing the ZERO degree weather back at home! :-) Lonnie is excited to be here and get going, and hopefully hearing from her kids (<--are you calling?!? :-) And Katherine, the token Facebook photo-poster, says "HI" to Kyla.

Today the team really stepped up despite the weather. After the construction supervisor announced at breakfast they were "calling" the construction day due to rain, winds and lightning, the team was still looking for what service work we could do in the area.

After breakfast, our team drove to Waveland, MS, to see where the eye of the storm hit. Once the rain gave us a break, we picked up garbage on the beach. Surprisingly, it all looked like reminisce from home(s), still on the beach and in the water(s) 4 years later.

After, we came back to Camp Victor, and Eric, Dan and Gretchen went into the warehouse, found supplies and made some clothes and towel hooks for the showers. They are GREAT! My team is proactive and creative, I love it. After lunch we took a bus tour to see the devastation of Katrina, given by someone who's family grew up in Ocean Springs. Scott, our tour driver, pointed out what was there and now all we see is blank slabs of concrete, former house foundations. Check out this video from YouTube of a (CRAZY!) guy who stayed during the storm and filmed the storm coming to shore in Biloxi, from a casino parking garage, which we drove by today.

Right now, our group is sitting in Camp Victor's lounge and watching a Hurricane Katrina documentary put together by the local ABC affiliate. Amazing.

The team has a great sense of what our work means after our drive, tour and video today. People are very thankful we are here.

Tomorrow, sigh...tomorrow, the weather looks to be promising working weather! We hope to have a decent, productive, full day of work. Prayers for safe weather.

Thanks for reading, more later.

~gena~