Pastor Willie Walker, a local hero who rescued hundreds of people during the Katrina devastation, and his congregation were currently using a dilapidated house to continue church services at Noah's Ark Missionary Baptist Church, which has been serving New Orleans for over 60 years. Though Pastor Walker had helped countless people, he had never been able to rebuild his own church - fast forward to last Sunday, the day we were set to sheetrock, finish, and texture the building that would be the new Noah's Ark Missionary Baptist Church.

We arrived on site at 7 am "hat in hand" but other trades had fallen behind overnight about 4 hours off sche...