See more pics @ http://www.facebook.com/pages/EDGE-and-Oasis/132853560095024

Today we went to a woman named Deborah's house and chipped paint and did some mudding. After that we closed up things with Warrenett (the most passionate person you will ever meet).

Tonight we decided to play tourist and go to the French Quarter in the heart of New Orleans. We found some pretty interesting people, with some interesting characteristics. We ate some dough balls (beignet's) as well and almost missed the ferry back to our car. Worship time was great, sad because David has to leave tomorrow morning, but we will have to make due. Possibly Dani can play guitar for us ;]

See you tomorrow, adios.

-Cassidy

We are headed to work with a new group tomorrow. The group is called PNOLA. We are not sure what we are going to be doing yet, but are looking forward to the new opportunities.

you can see some of the pics from today on our facebook EDGE/Oasis page.

Please keep praying for us as we serve here in New Orleans.

-Todd

Check out the pics @ our facebook site

http://www.facebook.com/pages/EDGE-and-Oasis/132853560095024

see our first blog of the week below

Report by Stephen:

FIRST DAY: Rise and shine at 6:45!!!! YAY. We all drove in the van (And got to ride a ferry across the Mississippi river!) until we reached Little Greater Zion Baptist Church where we met Miss Warrenetta, the lady who tells us what job sites we should work at. David (Dah-veed), our worship leader headed up a small group made up of him, Pauli, and Dani to go to a house owned by someone called Miss Mabel. I wasn't in that group, but I heard they did a lot of gardening. The rest of us drove over to a place called "The Guerrilla Garden", partially owned by a lady nick-named "Jenga". The garden was a smallish piece of land that had been an empty lot before the storm. We hauled a lot of gravel, moved a lot of bricks, and shoveled a lot of dirt. Josh fell over with a wheelbarrow because he thought he heard Wolf (our speaker) tell him to "Floor it!" when wolf had actually said "Slow down!". I got it on film. Anyways, we did a lot of work at that site. Jenga told us her story about how she had given up a 3d animation job at Dreamworks, just to come live in New Orleans and do volunteer work while living off her life savings. Her dream is to turn the lot into a community garden. After work we came back to base camp and there were huge holes in the ground because of some construction. They had accidentally hit our water main, so we had to deal with brown water in our sinks for a while. We all went to a chicken restaurant called "Chick-fil-A" for dinner. After that, we had chapel, then afterglow, then we went to bed.

SECOND DAY: Today Most of the group went back to the Guerrilla garden and finished another path. Also, they dug a ton of bricks out of the ground. Some of us (David, Lorna, Me, and Dani) drove to a duplex house owned by a lady named Miss Mary, who had had her house completely rebuilt after the storm. It had taken her four years before she could actually move back into Louisiana, and she still has yet to move into her new house. We did a lot of caulking in her bathroom, and then we went back to the church to have our lunch with the rest of the group. After that, we split up again with Wolf, Me, Janna, and Pauli going back to Miss Mary's house and doing more caulking and cleaning there. I got to use a beastly lawn mower, and also a weed whacker. After that, we were picked up by the rest of the group and taken back to base camp, where we had nice hot showers. For dinner, we went to Brothers (Chicken place), Sonic, and Subway. We just had chapel and afterglow, and we just now have named the mac up in Todd's office. It is now officially called "Max". I am tired, and Todd is telling me to go to bed, so goodnight everyone. Over and out!

New Orleans Team!

well this is our first post. we have not had much access to internet, or time to post.

We are hoping to get some pictures from the week up by the end of the night.

They will be on our facebook page which you can access through this link

http://www.facebook.com/pages/EDGE-and-Oasis/132853560095024

it has been a great 2 days.

We have met some amazing people and done a lot of work. The people we have worked with have been so welcoming and open to having us help them. We are very much looking forward to the next 3 days of serving together here in New Orleans.

I will try and have some updates from some of our team about our first days either later tonight, or tomorrow.

Everyone is doing well! Thank you for your prayers and support!

Todd

Pics from Thursday and Friday

http://www.facebook.com/pages/EDGE-and-Oasis/132853560095024

Today was our last day of service. Johnathan and his team spent most of the morning at their house finishing up their project. They wanted to be sure to be done before we left.

The rest of the team spent most of the day serving at Streetscape mission. We cooked up about 200 hotdogs and a lot of Chili. We spent most of the day serving lunch to all of those who came through. Then at the end of the day before we headed back to basecamp, Steve from Streetscape shared his Faith Story. He spoke for about 45 minutes and our whole team was really attentive.

After we said our goodbyes to Steve and Sam, we headed back to our basecamp. Tonight we are looking forward to having a dinner out as a team, which is a gift from a couple from High Street Community Church.

As we finish this week out, we will leave Galveston again with heavy hearts. It is always sad to leave behind friends that we have made. We have put up a lot of dry wall, put on a lot of mud, cooked a lot of hotdogs, and spent a lot of time laughing, praying, listening, being challenged, and bonding together.

As this trip closes, we as a team thank you for all that you have done to support us! Pray for us as we finish the trip! Pray that even tonight in our communion time, chapel, and afterglow.

Pray for safety on the way back to the airport and as we fly home.

Today was Wednesday.

Charlie is going to report on his team and what they did today. "On my team today was Lizzie, Jennifer, Daniel, and Brittany. We spent the whole day moving dirt and tried to get it so her front yard was sloped so water would flow off her front yard better. It was a lot of hard work. we were lucky though because her house shaded us from the sun most all day. The Lady was super nice. We filled up a cinder block area with dirt so the blocks would stay in place . And we filled up the middle of the blocks with top soil. When were all done, Brittany took us to Sonic for an afternoon treat."

Ben Shaw is going to report on his team. "Conor and Don Moser were on my team today. We finished they dry walling the ceiling at the house on stilts. We completed a wall. This week was the first time I have ever done dry walling. Tomorrow we are hoping to finish the room. and then we will move on to the last room. We also had a chance to get some mudding and taping done as well. We were able to save our backs with a nifty little contraption that Don brought from our base camp. It lifted up the drywall to the ceiling so it was much easier to do the ceiling with that tool. It was a good day for us. Our little team did pretty well, and had a good time!"

James Marshall is going to report on his team. "Taylor, Ali, Amber, Noel, and i were on a team today. We went to the homeless shelter. We painted their whole kitchen. And we also served lunch to about 12 -15 homeless people who came through. Then we had a chance to help them by buying them some VGA cables for their computers, and a new faucet because theirs was broken. Sam (the lady we work with their) was ecstatic when we gave her the gifts. Then we took Sam, and our team and got Sonic together. The day was very work filled and entertaining."

We will have our other team report soon. we have to start chapel right now. We just got back from the SPOT for dinner. it was really good food!

New photos from days 4 & 5 are up

http://www.facebook.com/pages/EDGE-and-Oasis/132853560095024

Updates from today will be up when we get back from the Spot for dinner. it was a really great day. check back soon for updates.