On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast in Mississippi and Louisiana.  Little did we know, but as God called on us to serve there for a week, our hearts were touched so profoundly by the people and their situations, that we returned for another three months and two more winters after that.  

By Spring of 2008, we were packing up to head home for the last time, but our hearts will forever remain in Mississippi.  We have been back to visit our friends a couple times since then.

This past week, we got word that one of the people we met, Ann Buchanan, passed on to the loving arms of Jesus on July 21st.  

The day we met her, our "job" was to tear down her flooded-beyond-repair mobile home.  As Miss Ann and her family, looked on, we tore down her home full of memories and walked each piece to the street, making the pile of debris bigger and bigger.  

A team from Midura, Kansas, built her a new home.  She spent the past 15 years making new memories in that home.  

A simple, beautiful woman with a big heart, Miss Ann, you will be missed.