These are the Grace Christian church folks who prepared our Thursday evening potluck dinner. It was much like our own back home at EACC -- except I don't remember ever having crawfish etouffee as one of our dishes! Grace is a small church -- a good Sunday is 50+ in attendance. Imagine the effort in providing dinner for mission volunteers nearly every Thursday evening for 2+ years!Grace Christian had just moved to this building in Covington prior to Hurricane Katrina -- they were originally "First Christian Church" of Mandelville, LA and needing to downsize when this building became available from a Lutheran church that needed more space for their growing church. It was a trade from heaven!
Shannon Mangum, a member of Grace Christian, presents each mission group with a "cross of shards" before they return home. She and others have collected these broken pieces of glass from all the homes where work has been done -- from that brokenness comes this beauty. We'll have the cross with us on Sunday so you can see the beauty for yourselves.
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