| Katrina Relief Trip | |
| In April 2008 a group from the Advent traveled to Gulfport, Mississippi, to assist in the ongoing rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Katrina. | |
 A NASA satellite image of Katrina at her Category 5 worst. |
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 Concrete slabs such as these are all that is left of many buildings. |
 Only a sturdy brick vault survives of what was once a bank. |
 Team Advent: (l.-r.) Aaron Butt, Fr. Warren, Joan Cammett, Camilla Shannon, Tim Shannon (kneeling in front), Carolyn McDermott, Tom McDermott, Nola Sheffer |
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 A map showing where volunteers have come from. |
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 The crew worked on this house, seen here before the addition of siding. |
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 Fr. Warren and power tools ... be afraid. Be very afraid. |
 Crew putting siding on a new house. |
 More of the work in progress |
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 Working on the roof. |
 Other people got to use the chop saw from time to time... |
 A neighbor came to thank the crew. |
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 From putting up framing ... |
 ... to what is starting to look like a house. |
 The crew built a handicap-access ramp for this elderly woman (in the white sweater). |
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 Fr. Warren and another crew member on the porch of the woman's new home. |
 The completed ramp. |
 The team takes a well-earned break at a local eatery. |
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 The crew, including a group from New Mexico, in front of their work. |
 A new house next to one still in need of rehab. |
 There is still a great deal to be done. The Advent is already planning a second trip, tentatively this fall. |
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