Rebuild Lakeshore

Lord willing, a team from Carlisle PA will frame up the Calhoun House next week.

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A local resident, who lost his home in the storm, has been living in a 12 X 12 shed. The small window unit can’t keep up with the June Mississippi heat. A couple volunteered to insulate the shed for him today and try to make the living conditions a little more bearable while he tries to build a 576 sq ft house. He has dug the holes and has pilings ready to set.

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Last week a great group from Lebanon Baptist Church - Hartselle, AL accomplished all sorts of things including tearing down these flooded sheds. This made way for the property owners to begin rebuilding their home that hurricane Katrina destroyed.

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Back in February I posted about putting new floors down in the first two Quonset huts we erected right after the storm. I didn’t have any good pictures of what it looked like underneath the decaying floors of the left hut, but Waygon Sanders had a great one in his Facebook photo album.

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I took a few minutes to try my hand at a youtube blog update. In this short clip I give a brief big picture overview of the tremendous amount of work behind us and ahead of us. If this seems helpful, we may do videos like this from time to time.

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If you have traveled as a volunteer to Lakeshore in the Last couple of years, its a good chance that you made use of the Disaster Relief Mobile Wash House provided by the Elkins Rotary Club of West Virginia. Two years ago today I posted about the shower trailer on my blog. I quoted from the original press release that read:

Not long after Katrina had ravaged South Mississippi, an outreach group of folks from the First Baptist Church of Elkins, WV and the Rotary Club from the same city ended up at the Lakeshore Baptist Church on the western side of Waveland, MS. Although the church was completely destroyed, there´s a slab there, the people of that church were playing host to volunteer workers from the North. The only facilities were tents to sleep in and portable toilets for use by the volunteers.

The folks from Elkins WV tackled the problem, met the need, built, and graciously provided the Disaster Relief Mobile Wash House. Thousands of volunteers have made use of the facilities as they worked here in the relief, recovery, and rebuilding efforts.

The wash house is equipped with two bathrooms. The ladies´ room has a toilet, two shower stalls and a dressing area, while the men´s room has a toilet, urinal, two shower stalls and a dressing area. The center area contains two combination washer/dryers, a utility wash basin and houses the hot water heater. The dryers are operated by natural or propane gas, which also heats the facility when needed. The trailer is equipped with air conditioning and exhaust fans that keep the wash house cool and well ventilated. The wagon is equipped with an attached entrance stairway, landing platform and handrails that fold for storage and transport against the wagon´s underbelly. Utility hook-ups are also provided from the wagon´s underbelly.

Greg plans to travel to West Virginia this weekend and personally thank the Elkins Rotary Club for the use of the mobile wash house and update them on the continuing need here on the gulf coast. As we look forward to another labor intensive summer in the blazing Mississippi heat, we extend ongoing appreciation for the use of the unit. After working and sweating in humidity percentages and temperatures hovering around the triple digits, there is nothing like a good shower.

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In the news:

The summer of 1911 saw a new church planted in Hancock County Mississippi. The Lakeshore Baptist Church began with just a hand full of hopeful Christians desiring to establish an ongoing work of gospel proclamation and ministry. Speaking of the church’s history, Pastor Don Elbourne said, “We have inherited a rich legacy of Christ-empowered endurance and dependance on the sovereignty of God over all things. We look to extend that legacy into the future as a hope-inspiring presence in the community.” Lakeshore Baptist invites everyone, especially those touched by her ministry in the past, to join them on Sunday June 8, 2008 for “Homecoming” as they celebrate this 97 year heritage of hope. Services begin at 11:00 am at the Lakeshore Baptist Church, 6028 Lakeshore Road in Lakeshore MS. An old-fashioned “dinner on the grounds” will follow the morning service. For more information call the church office at (228) 469-0110 or on the web at http://lakeshorebaptist.net/

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