NOLA10- traveling to New Orleans

Everything was going smoothly until I got a call from Howard.  

Let me back up.  

And I'll start by saying that there was no emergency- no accidents, no big drama.  Don't worry, but keep reading.  :-)

We got out of town on time.  Drove through Minnesota and Iowa and into Missouri.  No problems.  Nice and smooth.  

However, we were supposed to pick up Howard N. and Carolyn "The Colonel" at the airport in St. Louis as they were attending a wedding in NYC earlier that day.  Bob was supposed to pick up Howard and The Colonel at the airport and then meet with one of our trucks in Kirkwood, MO.   

I should probably introduce Bob, Howard, and The Colonel.  They are all brothers and sister.  Bob lives in Indianapolis and usually meets us in St. Louis, parks his car and continues south with us.  The Colonel (Carolyn) lives in Dayton and usually flies to Minneapolis and rides down with us.  Howard lives in St. Paul and usually drives his truck in the caravan.  -  Ok-  got the players?  

And then Howard called.  Apparently, Bob was not in St. Louis yet.  Bob hadn't even left Indianapolis.  He thought we were leaving the next weekend.  Not the complete end of the world, we would just have our truck swing into the airport and pick up Howard and The Colonel, then continue down to Cape Girardeau to meet up with the rest of the team.  But Bob is one of the construction leaders and his not being there is going to cause some issues in the projects.  

The team continued on, spent the night at an awesomely hospitable church in Cape Girardeau, MO.  The church is La Croix church.  It's pretty huge.  And they are very kind to us.  

This morning, we got up, headed out, drove through Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, and got to Slidell, LA around 6:00pm.  

The travel was almost seamless.  Easy roads.  Easy traffic.  Easy weather.  Easy people.  Easy.  

We have different people do devotions with our team - once in the morning and once at night.  So far, we've heard from Krissy (who isn't with us, but came to see us off), Debbie F., Lewis, and Rob.  They have all tied together really well.  And we don't necessarily plan that.  Seems to happen all the time.  

Big long team meeting-  introductions and all, procedures, etc.  

And Bob pulled in about midnight.  All is well.  

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Prayer requests: 

Safe worksites.

Thanksgiving for safe travel and Bob's arrival.  

That we can Do what is right, love mercy, and walk humbly with God.  

Thank you for following along!  I might try to send this via MailChimp sometime this week. if you stop getting this part way through the week, check your junk mail folders or your "promotions" tab if you use Gmail.  (With Mailchimp, I can put pictures right in the email-  )  

Ok-  Peace and Joy and thanks for being a part of our team!

Rod

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Are you a tool?

Christ has no body on earth but yours,

no hands but yours,

no feet but yours.

Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out;

yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good;

and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.  

(St. Teresa of Avila)