Leslie’s home Leslie is a gentleman I would guess to be in his 70's, who has lived in this home all his life, as well as his parents before him (the house is 99 years old). The home is in Pascagoula, MS, about 1-1/4 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. It has withstood many hurricanes…
Tuesday morning I met Al in the dining hall at 6:00 for breakfast, which that day was scrambled eggs, bacon, and oatmeal (real oatmeal for which they had butter, brown sugar, raisins, and milk, so I was a happy camper). Also available each day were OJ, apple juice, toast, PB&J, yogurts, a variety of dry…
After the teams were organized and we made arrangements to meet in the morning, it was almost 10:00, which is bedtime at Camp Victor. All dorm room and hallway lights are turned out at 10:00 on the dot, and no noise or conversations are allowed except in the dining hall, where the lights are left…
Home Feb 4 2007 <—– Here's what we left… (single-digit temperatures with wind chills below 0 F) Mississippi Feb 5 2007 ……. and here's what we came to ——> (temps in the 60's, bright and sunny) Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Monday night after Orientation, the 75 of us from the SW PA synod gathered in the dining hall to get our work assignments for Tuesday morning. The Camp Victor volunteer coordinator had given Pastor Larry 5 jobs to create teams for, so he read them all out with a brief description, and asked for a…
Monday evening during Orientation, Suzie told us this parable: One day, an old man was walking along the beach in the early morning andnoticed what appeared to be thousands of starfish washed up on theshore. Up ahead in the distance, he spotted a boy who appeared to begathering up the starfish and tossing them, one by one, back…
FEMA Camp Victor is home to 3 cats (for keeping away mice) and 2 dogs (for keeping away miscreants). Here's a picture of the cat named FEMA. She had been found injured near the camp (she lost an eye), and the camp staff nursed her back to health. They told us they had named her FEMA because…
On Monday evening after spaghetti dinner in the mess hall, there was a mandatory orientation session for anyone whose first day it was (i.e. us). There they told us how Camp Victor came to be. Christus Victor Lutheran Church is a church on Rt 90 in Ocean Springs. When Katrina hit, the church staff was at…
On Monday after we ate lunch at Camp Victor, we all loaded into the coach bus for a tour of Gulfport and Biloxi. The purpose was to give us an idea of the scope of devastation and how things still are, since there isn't much destruction in evidence in the parts of Ocean Springs we…
Our journey begins… Sunday morning at church, we were Commissioned by Pastor Peggy, using a special service created by the Synod just for this purpose. Part of the text from 2 Corinthians was: “We have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power … does not…
Where have the days gone? 