A Treehouse north of Slidell. Not that it was originally designed as such, but... 

Wesley awaiting an assignment-  

Third Trip to LA, Chalcedon Conference

We returned from our third trip to south eastern Louisianna at 0536 hrs. Friday morning. After unloading the bulk of our important supplies from the vehicle, we crashed for a few hours. I must confess, we didn't really sleep much :). That evening, the Mortons and one Smith (this one) drove up to a Chalcedon church in Cumming, GA, for a conference w/ Doug Phillips, Gary Demar, Mark Rushdoony, and Martin Selbrede. Mr. Phillips was in fine form, as always...
Saturday was also spent at this conference (note: the girls were also in attendance on Saturday). We spoke with Mr. Phillips, and met several families from around the country with whom we hope to maintain contact in the future. :)

Bob Renaud took this photograph for us at the conference.

Second trip

The last few days have been spent cleaning up the mess from our previous expedition into New Orleans, and preparing for the next one. We've finally made contact with Robbie Armstrong, the youth pastor? we met in the CiCi's parking lot in Hammond, LA. He has put us into contact with several churches in Slidell and the surrounding area that need help. At the moment, we are planning to take a load of supplies in to them, leaving Friday night as soon as possible. If we can get Daniel's blue one fixed or borrow another one, we would like to take a dirtbike in to use for reconnaissance. Lots of work to do, and I have several clients to take care of tomorrow. Good night, and God Bless!
Grace and Peace...

Our team with the guys from Operation Save America -- at the end of a day's work well done. Good work, guys!

On our return leg out of NO, we had a little company...

The line at this roadblock was over a mile long, but the Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed towards his people (Exodus 12:36), and we skipped the line and the checkpoint with little difficulty.

Charlie (needs to shave LOL...)
Background is sunset over Lake Maurepas, Sunday evening, at the beginning of our return trip home.

Sunset over Lake Maurepas, just west of Lake Pontchartrain.

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Due to recent sub-optimal weather conditions in southeastern Louisiana, the consistancy of electrical supply to some areas has been adversely affected...

LA Rest Stop

Our team with the Op. Save America crew at the rest area on I-55 just south of the Mississippi border. It was shut down, having undergone a loss of power and water, and all the vending machines had been burglarized.

High Place Campground, serving as temporary HQ for Operation Save America. We stopped there Sunday morning; they provided a wonderful breakfast, and then we joined their caravan into New Orleans.

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Mr. Andrew Morton and Mr. Nick Campana 

Mr. Lummus, Ernest, and Nick distribute goods to citizens of Kenner, LA.

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Master Wesley Morton realigns the kinetic transferal linkage on this worthy lady's primary means of transportation.

Mr. Sanders and Mr. Campana 

Mr. Morton 

Mr. Campana proclaiming the guy's efforts in the name of the Lord God almighty!!!! 

The poster that the girls (sisters of all the guys') made for y'alls joyous return!!! 

Alan 

Wesley 

Home from New Orleans, safe and sound

Greetings!
Due to adverse conditions created by recent catastrophic weather patterns, we put together a team last Saturday and took several tons of supplies and distributed them in a western suburb of New Orleans. We drove all night Saturday, arrived at a campground owned by an acquaintance of Mr. Frank Campana at 0630 hrs EST (0530 local), and then caravanned with another group into LA. Having conducted reconnaissance and distributed our supplies, we left Kenner, LA, yesterday evening (Sunday). We took 145 gallons of fuel in drums (50 diesel, 95 gas) and used most of it. The last station we stopped at that had fuel on our way west was Tuscaloosa, AL. We took two vehicles: the Smith F-250 (diesel) pulling Mr. Reed's flatbed trailer with ~ 3 tons of supplies, and the Lummus' Suburban (Gasoline) with an extension carrying the generator and some fuel. The party consisted of Mr. Campana and his son Nicholas, Mr. Morton and his sons Michael, Cleveland, and Wesley, Mr. Lummus and his sons Arthur and Ernest, Mr. Sanders and his son Noah, and, of course, yours truly. Amusing events included having water in the diesel we had purchased and placed in our 50 gal. drum, causing an interesting 3 1/2 hr. delay this morning when the fuel we transferred at a stop in southern Mississippi shut our engine down at ~ 0100 hrs. Thankfully, we were able to negotiate the difficulty, and were able to make it home by 1100 hrs today. All went well, and we sustained no injuries worth mentioning. God be praised!!! We are currently in need of information concerning conditions particularly on the eastern side of New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain, particularly if anyone knows if Homeschooling Christians who may be in need of assistance -- food/water/medical supplies/evacuation, etc. We are maintaining contact with Vision Forum, and may participate in operations with them should the necessity arise.