Traverse City Record-Eagle

Woman finds a miracle in mud
Residents in southeast Louisiana know the formula for hurricane evacuations: You leave for a few days, but you'll soon be home. It's more a pain than a plan. But when the evacuation orders started two years ago for Hurricane Katrina, Carol Saling knew this time would be different.
Volunteers, town have 'come a long way'
St. Bernard Parish's governmental center flooded with nearly 12 feet of water after Hurricane Katrina two years ago, and it has yet to be restored. So government employees lead the roughly 465-square mile parish, based in the town of Chalmette, from trailers set up in the parking lot.
Residents vow to make New Orleans better
There was nothing left of New Testament Baptist Church when the Rev. Jack Battiste returned to his neighborhood for the first time in months. Katrina made sure of that.
Students refurbish gutted homes, landscape
Regina Craft leaned on faith to get her through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Water damaged Craft's home in New Orleans' Chantilly neighborhood, but she was at the house Wednesday, where she shared her story with a handful of students from Traverse City Christian School.
Relief workers target New Orleans homes
The lawn likely hadn't been cut in years, and Anne Friedlander fired up the lawn mower in ankle-high grass. The one-story, brick house in the New Orleans East neighborhood was one of several homes students refurbished as part of a schoolwide mission trip to Louisiana to assist in Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts.
Local students begin relief mission in La.
Jared Olshove's no stranger to basic construction chores, so the Traverse City Christian School sophomore jumped right into the fray at a church tattered by Hurricane Katrina.
First look at battered city an eye-opener
For the next week, students from Traverse City Christian School will replace their semester exams with a different kind of test. The 123 students and several dozen parent volunteers will spend the week rebuilding parts of Chalmette, La., a town that has yet to recover from Hurricane Katrina.
TC students head back to New Orleans
Less than six months after Hurricane Katrina, in a devastated region of the Gulf Coast, students from Traverse City Christian School spent part of a week tearing things down. Now, two years later, they plan to build things up.
Archives: Mission To Moss Point
A list of links to stories and photos published during Traverse City Christian School's first trip to the Gulf Coast region in 2006.