Flood Clean Up in Louisiana

Last week a group of Texans from Beautiful Savior Lutheran Arlington, Trinity Lutheran Tyler, The Summit Lutheran Aledo and The Holy Cow Smokers from Lamb of God Lutheran Flower Mound  Traveled to Baton Rouge, LA to assist with Flood Recovery.

The Holy Cow Smokers stayed at Trinity Lutheran Church in Baton Rouge. This was their base of operations as they fed over 6000 meals to the community. The Rest of us stayed bout 5 miles down the road on property owned by Trinity Lutheran that has become Camp Restore Baton Rouge.

During our stay, we did a number of tasks to help prepare Camp Restore for full operation. On the evening we arrived we put covers on all the mattresses covers on all the bunk beds in the Building  and move bunk beds around to optimize the setup . One team worked to "demolish nature." We removed under trees and underbrush from an area where the camp wanted to park a semi-trailer from Orphan Grain Train. One team worked to tape and bed sheetrock in a room that was being finished out for addition bunk space.

While some teams stayed behind to help put the camp in order, The Majority were out in the community helping victims of the storm put their lives back together. Most of the work was gutting houses. We removed wet sheetrock and insulation, tore down wet ceilings.cleaned out flooded storage barns, and whatever else we could for the homeowners.

We did a lot of great work this weekend, but the amount of work still left to be done is overwhelming. If you would like to volunteer you can contact CampRestore at 504-242-2636.