Berean Hurricane Katrina Blog: Wheaton – Edgemont

June 14^th

Wheaton – Edgemont – Salem

This week we had groups in from Wheaton Bible Church in Wheaton, IL, Edgemont Bible Church in Fairview Heights, IL and First Baptist Salem from Salem, OR. We kicked off the week with an orientation with Doug, Lawrence, Melissa and myself. The teams were really pumped up afterwards. On Monday Wheaton headed over to Doug’s dad house and Barbara’s Smith’s home. They also helped by cleaning up around the nursing home. The team was also really excited about hitting the street with Lawrence for evangelism late in the week. Edgemont was over at Diamond Dussett’s home, helping with some skilled jobs he had. For the first time since Katrina, Berean held Fischer 5-day club, and Edgemont helped out. They also helped Pastor Elijah clean up in the 9 th ward. Salem helped out at Melda Clarks house. They built a cover for her hot water heater and various other jobs. Then they went over to Fischer Elementary to paint.

Orientation with Wheaton and Edgemont

Some weeks we dont play any knockout, some weeks we play alot. This week we played ALOT.

The three teams hanging out in the gym

The team from Salem brought down quilts that women in their church had made to give to people in New Orleans, they we so sweet to give one to Melissa, Doug and I.

Wheaton