This is the week of Memorial Day parades. It is the time of year when the leaves had popped out, spring flowers are blooming, the grass is green, the town center is decorated and everything looks fresh and renewed. I love our Memorial Day parade through the heart of our community. However, our town center lies in stark contrast to Waveland, MS the town we are going to help rebuild on this year’s mission trip. There one fifth of the home stand untouched and abandoned after the eye of Hurricane Katrina made landfall there. Another one third have been rebuilt. For many homes, they were still removing debris last year. And while the population is back at 98% of its pre-Katrina level. Most of the homes have yet to become inhabitable. And on Memorial Day, I am reminded that one third of the people without homes in the area are Veterans of the Middle East (Gulf war, War in Iraq and Afghanistan). This week I encourage you to celebrate in reflection and prayer the home town feel of our community. I also invite you to lift up in prayer the people who have no home or home town and the mission work that our young folks will be doing in a month.
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