Fierce Falcons FTW

Dearest Family and Friends, this newsletter update is coming directly from the Falcon Nest.

You may have heard some interesting stories from other crews about our adventures in Slidell, Louisiana.  However, we would like to tell you our story. We would like to take this opportunity to introduce the Falcon Nest:

Daniela – Mama Falcon

Adam – Commander Falcon

Parker – Little Eyas (aka Lil’ E), when he grows up, he’ll be “Stealth Falcon”

Joy – The Black Falcon            

Jenny –Blind Falcon

Van – Father Falcon

Jay – Limitless Falcon

D.C. – D.C. (still working to earn his wings)

The other crews have been jealous of Crew F (The Falcons) ever since our inception. Crews have attempted to reach our level of awesomeness, dubbing themselves “the bears” (crew B), “the gators” (crew G), and even “elegant elephants” (crew E). Crew E greeted us at our jobsite, as Papa John had been looking forward to catching up with Chanel (our homeowner) and Mama Lu, her grandmother. (PICTURE: John and Mama Lu). The Elegant Elephants, consumed by their Envy, decided to ambush our crew under this pretense (See picture link). The Falcons Fought Fiercely, but our Fearless Falcon, Jenny, was the victim of a vicious attack that left her wounded… we let the “elegant elephants” leave us to pray over our now “Blind” Falcon before we began our work alongside our Mennonite partners (Jenny had to suffer through the day with only one good eye with which to view her.. work! She was a BEAST working with the wet saw :) ). After a successful day of tiling, we returned back to Aldersgate Church for dinner, but before going in, we patched up Jenny’s eye (as the beginning of our Farcical Fun).  I believe our ruse instilled a proper level of guilt in the hearts of E Crew, and in fact Jenny took pity and reassured Nathan (the water balloon assailant) that she was not, in fact, hurt, since his remorse was more than evident.

In sum, Wednesday has been a wonderfully eventful and blessed day contributing to a great week. –Falcons Out–

DISCLAIMER: No one was injured in the writing of this blog…or the water battle so it seems…it was a rotten trick but a stealthy one by the “Falcons”…  We continue to have great fellowship and amazing growth as we move forward with the work we ahve come to do here in Lousiana.  The thing that struck me today was the people of thius area who I had the opportunity (Who God placed in my life today!)  to interact with.  There was Donna a homeless women who told us her Katrina story today and quite a story it was, Linda who works at Aldersgate and who we know from several past trips and who continues to need our prayers, and the clerks at the WalMart who ended our purchases with “Have a Blessed Day”, and Lucian who was a member of Aldersgate’s Choir and who was outside disussingt he retrieval of the honeybee swarm on the crepe Myrtle tree next to the sanctuary.  He and I (being hgte entomologist that I am) had quite the discussion first about bees, then about the amazing wonder that is being a servan tof GOd and how that is what we are called to be, and he thanked me and all of us for coming to SLidell and the region and gave me a heartfelt hug and once again I gained more than I could possibly give on the trip…God is good.  goodnight, mark  

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