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Background
From Sunday,
June 24th –Saturday, June, 30th, 2007, 46 members of
the Archbishop McNicholas High School community served our brothers
and sisters in the Gulf Coast region of the United States through the
East St. Tammany affiliate of
Habitat for Humanity.
As you are well aware, the consequences of Hurricane Katrina continue to
reverberate throughout the lives on millions of people in our nation’s
Gulf Coast. Led by religion teachers John Norman and Jeff
Hutchinson-Smyth, a group of faculty, parents, alumni, and members of the
class of 2008 dedicated a full, volunteer work week serving Habitat
for Humanity in many capacities in order to help people across the region
rebuild their homes and their lives.
We
lived our Christian faith as we built relationships with each other
and with the people we encountered along the way. All participants
sacrificed some of our daily conveniences as an act of simplicity
and solidarity. Through interaction with others, through evening
reflection and shared prayer, and through hard work, we have begun to confront the realities revealed by Katrina while serving as
ambassadors of hope.
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