Welcome

WELCOME!! to the Lamp Lighters BLOG, where we are sharing our experiences in volunteering in the Biloxi, Mississippi area.

NEW! We are back home now. In the weeks that follow, I will be continuing to post photos and stories as I can get to them. I will try to upload our team photos and worksites first, so that friends and families and perhaps future teams can see what we have been doing. But I also have hundreds of photos of the devastation, and in the hope that I can bring even a little understanding about the scope of it all, I will be posting those. And there is so much to write about, too. Most of it will be about the hope that I saw, for it is definitely there amidst the rubble.

The most recent posts will appear on top; you will have to scroll down or click on a post heading (see sidebar) to go to earlier posts. There are many more posts than appear on the sidebar; check the archives if you cannot see the posts by scrolling down the page.

Included in the posts are profiles of the team members from the Connecticut District of the New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, and descriptions of what we have been doing.

Please leave us comments and messages! You can also leave a message by using my email address: elizabethhokama@yahoo.com.