Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

(All New Orleans 2009 posts can be found here)
Today was the most frustrating day. I was moved to a new jobsite so that Anne Marie and I could work together. Well, that didn’t work out since everyone went onto the roof and I only lasted for 5 minutes there before I was so terrified I [...]

(All New Orleans 2009 posts can be found here)
This week has been about getting to know people and about building relationships. Everyone works so hard and has a great attitude. Trudy Fehr has been amazing as our crew leader – not because she has a commanding presence, but because she works harder than anyone and [...]

(All New Orleans 2009 posts can be found here)
The idea of “unspectacular work” has been my metaphorical matrix for the week. We are in New Orleans, but we’re not partying in the city. In fact, we have seen very little of the city other than the neighborhoods that we’re working in. And this is the [...]

Another day of hard work, but for some reason we got to a lot of conversation today… about church, Jesus, relationships, and church planting. I think we might have planted two new churches today. More details to follow.
Jordon is a young man from Winnipeg who we’ve been working with every day. What a fantastic example [...]

Not a whole lot to report today.
We are not on vacation after all; we are working. And we really are: Billy is roofing, Anne Marie painting, I’m hanging drywall, Kitty and Anna are mudding and taping, and Trudy is doing whatever needs to be done, whenever it needs to be done. But everyone is working [...]

One of my favorite things so far is being in close proximity to some older members of our congregation. Something I appreciate about my heritage is the strong work ethic, and that ethic is on display here this week. But not only do they work hard, they laugh hard and play hard too. Every night [...]

New Orleans 2009
Well we made it here; we’re in New Orleans ready to get to work with MDS (Mennonite Disaster Services).
It was quite a trip: left at 11:00pm, spent over an hour at the Sarnia border, stayed up all night, flew out of Detroit at 6:00am, landed in Houston and hopped onto another plane to [...]

Next week I will be leading a team of 13 to New Orleans to do disaster relief work through Mennonite Disaster Services.
How to follow along:
Blog – I will try to post at least once per day here at the blog and  include pictures. All of the posts related to New Orleans will be at the [...]