public school opportunity

We have been given an open invitation to work in the Algiers public schools. Currently, five of the public schools in Algiers have reopened. They are all functioning at full-capacity and are educating students from all over the New Orleans area. There are many needs both in the five schools that are open as well as the eight schools that have yet to reopen. If you want to find out more information about the Algiers schools, you can visit their website here.

If this is the type of need your work team would get excited about, be sure to let us know. We can schedule teams to spend some or all of their time working in the schools.

This is an amazing opportunity to show Christ's love in our community!

Sayrewoods Video Report

Sayrewoods Bible Church sent me a copy of their video report that they showed to their congregation after their trip. I posted the video so that you can download and watch it. The good news is that it is DVD-quality video file. The bad news is that it is a really big file (about 175 mb). I would suggest that you save the file to your hard drive (right-click on the link and choose "save target as...").

I'm going to try to figure out how to post a lower-quality version. If I can figure it out, I will add a link to this post.

Doug

UPDATE: I uploaded the file again. If you tried to download the video and it cut off about 30 seconds in, try to download it again. Also, I added a lower-quality version for those who don't want to wait to download the bigger file.

house gutting work teams

Apparently New Orleanians are now ready to start working on their homes. We have been inundated with requests for house gutting in the past two weeks...so much so that we have decided to stop adding to our list until we catch up a bit.

That means that we have a great need for teams to gut houses. So much so, that we have decided add openings into our calendar for more work teams.

Gutting homes does not require much skill...just hard work and lots of love. Almost all of our jobs are for members of the community with whom we have had no previous contact. It is an amazing opportunity to share Christ's love and bring hope to a devastated family.

Here are some weeks that we would love to host some house gutting work teams:
Jan 22-28
Jan 29-Feb 4
Feb 12-18
Mar 19-25
Mar 26-Apr 1
Please pray about whether God wants you to help Him bring healing to New Orleans! If you are interested, please contact Doug at the church office (504-362-3254 or doug@bereannola.com)