Chalmette Seafood Reaturant

This is a picture outside the Seafood Resturant that we cleaned and gutted in Chalmette, LA. The whole crew isn't in the picture, but that pile is all ours.

Some of the worst smells came from this place as it was a time capsule and hadn't been touch since the hurricane hit. Countless houses upon houses (and businesses) are like this in gulf coast still.

The story behind this business, is the owner of the land was a member of the church that we were staying at in Slidell, LA. (Slidell is where the Epi-center of Katrina Hit. The owner didn't qualify for any help from FEMA or his insurance, but can't afford to do the clean-up himself. He has been drawing on his retirement funds to pay for the mortgage on that land. The mortgage was paid by the owner of the seafood restuarant. However, what happened in Chalmette is that the Oil Refinery down the street forget to empty its tanks, so 4 square miles in Chalmette (which is a densely populated area) was covered with oil. So the EPA is saying that they need to make the area green space. Some resident have a class-action lawsuit against the oil company, but others took teh $25,000 bribe that the Oil company made right after the Hurricane hit. The whole think is downright crooky and evil.

No one is helping this people. The church needs to step up and send more people to ministry to those that are still down there. We need to respond by spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ with our words and our deeds. We need to go down to the gulf coast because we Love Jesus and Jesus is moving in the people, they are ready to respond to his message of Truth.