GRACE CHURCH KATRINA SCRAP BOOK

 

The Flood’s Devastation

Exterior of the Church after the flood waters receded (September 17, 2005)

 

Interior of the Church after the flood waters receded (September 17, 2005)

 

Church Office after the flood waters receded

(September 17, 2005)

 

We return for worship!

Worship outdoors 7 weeks, October 23 – December 4

 

Work begins!

Destroyed Pews at the curbside (November 4, 2005)

Work crews from Monroe, La, and Richmond, Va.

 

Worship in the Chapel (December 11 – April 30) (Decorated with Kilz)


 

Months of planning, debris removal, de-molding, and fund-raising…

 

Coffee Hour in Nave (April 23, 2006)

 

 

Spring and summer work crews do yeomen’s work restoring our buildings

 

The Nave restored with a Labyrinth (July 2006)

(Work crews from Lutherville, Md, New York City, Lafayette, La, Pacific Palisades, Cal., and Providence RI)

 

Replanted Memorial Garden (July 2006)

(By work crew from New York City)

 

Mural damage assessed by experts from the

Kimball Museum in Fort Worth

(Cost of restoration unknown)


 

Outreach to the Community continues…

 

All Saints’ Sunday Procession with intercession for our devastated Mid-City Neighborhood

 

Grace Church becomes the weekly meeting place

for the Mid-City Neighborhood Association

 

“Grace Place” outreach ministry on Sunday after

Church with diocesan mobile relief unit.

 

After church (July 2006)

 

 

Much work remains…

 

Office and Sunday School wing after gutting

(Now partially dry-walled)

Groups from Carlsbad, NM, Lomira, Wis., Pacific Palisades, Cal., Providence, RI, Charleston, WV

 

 

 Childcare Center classrooms

(Now dry-walled and painted)

Groups from Lomira, Pacific Palisades, and Providence


 

Wall damage in Rector’s office

Now repaired by a groups from Lomira and Charleston

 

 

Damaged wall and mural in parish hall

 

 

 

Destroyed kitchen

(stove and floor are now removed)

 

 

 

Church Parking Lot with FEMA trailers for displaced parishioners. (Cortez St. House in background)

 

The Rectory

The Rectory living room after the flood waters receded

(September 2005)

 

New ceramic tile floor in Rectory (July 2006)