Out of Chaos, Hope in Biloxi

I'm not sure how to rightly convey what has been experienced by me and 25 of my friends from the high school group here at CPC so I'm going to go with pictures and stories...



Dianna is no more than 20. She works at the local Food Tiger a few blocks from where she lives with her grandma, Uncle who is missing a leg, several cousins, and a miriad of other extended family. Dianna is also 2 months pregnant.
In total there are 8 people living in a house that our
team entered wearing protective gear.


We took down the walls while they were still living in the house. On the second day of the job, Rebecca, a CHS student, and I opened up the kitchen cabinates and started clearing out the pots and pans that were full of flood water which had been sitting for 6 weeks. The smell was revolting. Then we doused everything with as much bleach as we could muster. At one point we needed to use an axe to cut a hole in the cabinates to let the water drain out. Rebecca swung the axe and sludge splattered all over the both of us. I wasn't sure if Rebecca was laughing or going to throw up since we had masks on...that kind of summerized our entire trip. Getting super dirty, working really hard, having tons of differing emotions flowing into and out of us, and in the end smiling and laughing and being thankful that we could make a difference.