week 16, post 2: Teamwork

Kelly, Linde, Courtney, Elaine and I continue to become better and better as a team. Elaine and I try to stay close to the ground, close to the clients in need. Linda organizes and distributes resources. Courtney and Kelly do more administration -- building the healthcare and community institutions so badly needed. Courtney and I are expanding some of our activities -- reaching out and teaching visiting volunteers from all over America about the bayou culture and environment. It is awfully bold of me to think I can or should even attempt to interpret this area or its people. I'm an outsider and should never forget that. But what can I say? I'm Baptist through and through -- passionate and evangelistic about this wonderful place and its people. I'm also very afraid -- afraid that without help -- advocacy help from these many visitors -- that this wonderful land and its people will be abandoned to the sea, forever. I want the visitors to go back home not just with a feeling of satisfaction for having rehabbed a building, but with an ongoing mission to rehab a coastline, an estuary, to protect a precious part of America and the people who live there. I'm posting a photo of Elaine, our teammate. Peace, Warren.