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Missionaries from Seaville United Methodist Church, Kaitlyn Wyand, Georgia Evan and Ed Wood, took the Gazette on a trip to help rebuild people’s lives on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Three years after the Hurricane Katrina, there are still many homeless and at least five to eight years work to be done. Seaville Methodist Church has made many trips to help with the rebuilding and hopes to make more.  Missionaries from Seaville United Methodist Church, Kaitlyn Wyand, Georgia Evan and Ed Wood, took the Gazette on a trip to help rebuild people’s lives on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Three years after the Hurricane Katrina, there are still many homeless and at least five to eight years work to be done. Seaville Methodist Church has made many trips to help with the rebuilding and hopes to make more.
 
Lil Senn, Bob and LuAnn Inman, Pastor Polly and John Standley, and Russ and Hope Konrady from Zion Lutheran Church in Egg Harbor City spent a week at Camp Victor, a ministry of Lutheran disaster response and Lutheran Episcopal services in Ocean Springs, Miss. to volunteer in the disaster recovery program for Hurricane Katrina. They spent the time there renovating homes damaged by the hurricane 2˝ years ago. The Gulf Coast has shown signs of recovery, they said, but still has a long way to go.

Disaster relief team gathers in the Gulf

Lil Senn, Bob and LuAnn Inman, Pastor Polly and John Standley, and Russ and Hope Konrady from Zion Lutheran Church in Egg Harbor City spent a week at Camp Victor, a ministry of Lutheran disaster response and Lutheran Episcopal services in Ocean Springs, Miss. to volunteer in the disaster recovery program for Hurricane Katrina. They spent the time there renovating homes damaged by the hurricane 2˝ years ago. The Gulf Coast has shown signs of recovery, they said, but still has a long way to go.
 

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Church team on a mission

 Two mission teams from Central United Methodist Church in Linwood went to Mississippi to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. This photo is from the second group that went down Aug. 22 through Sept. 3 and was present during the first anniversary of the Aug. 29 hurricane. They stayed at the First United Methodist Church in Pass Christian, Miss., and worked all week long to help five families, performing tasks such as plumbing, electric, painting and yard clearing. Pictured are Mark Turner, Bob Palamaro, Lisa Kaufman, Betsy Reed, Nancy Palamaro, Traci Higgins, Martha Grant, Lara D'Anna, Todd D'Anna and Jeff Stull holding The Current.