Stories...

Our mission trip has about ended but I feel so blessed for having been here.

God has richly blessed me; I especially realize that after all that I saw in the lower and upper 9th Ward in New Orleans.

Folks, we have done so much here, but we have just scratched the surface. There is much, much more that needs to be done.

On Thursday I had the opportunity to work in the UMCOR office answering the phones and setting up appointments for interviews next week. Trish, who works in the office, was a nurse at the hospital where the doctors are being sued for the deaths of their patients.

Trish told me that doctors carried patients up several flights of stars to the roof to get them to safety. She cradled babies for several hours because mothers had been discharged and babies had to remain behind. Trish also mentioned all those who had died long before the hurricane, whose bodies remained at the hospital through the storm because the funeral homes took a long time to pick up the bodies.

I learned so much, please pray for these people and don't believe everything you read in the papers or hear on the TV and radio news. It may not all be true.

What an awesome experience this has been for me. I hope to come again and encourage others to help in whatever way is possible.

Linda from RUMC