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The Wyoming Bunch
August 28, 2005.В That horrible day, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, spreading death and destruction that left our country and the people of the Gulf Coast reeling for years.В The effects of this storm have reached into almost every facet imaginable; a shift in the dynamic of Gulf Coast demographics, economy, and spirit.В That storm also had an unlikely and unplanned effect on a small, diverse group of people who lived thousands of miles away in Cheyenne, Wyoming.В This is the story of our group; and how we ended up dropping our sleeping bags and tool belts at the feet of Pastor Billy Graff of Galveston, Texas five years later.
Cheyenne, Wyoming is home to three Catholic parishes as part of the Diocese of Cheyenne, which encompasses the entire, sparsely populated state of Wyoming. My name is Denise; I attend Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Cheyenne. I was nearly 35 years old when Katrina hit. I was a married mom to two grade-school aged children, working as an aide to a special needs student at my children’s elementary school. About 8 months or so after the storm, I went to Mass with my family and heard an announcement for a mission group that was forming. Our Pastor wanted to send a group to New Orleans to assist with the cleanup/rebuilding. The instant I heard the announcement, I knew it was a call from God for me to go.
There we were; a group of 11 people who were all taking a step away from our lives for a week to travel with each other-complete strangers- to New Orleans in April 2006. We had no idea what we were getting into, really. We knew we weren’t going to be doing any “glory work” (as the New Orleans volunteer organizers came to call the arduous task of gutting homes), but that was alright. Instead, we were assigned two tasks by our organizers at Catholic Charities in New Orleans . One was to paint apartments at a building for the low-income elderly so they could move back in. The other task was to clean an abandoned school for the Sisters of the Holy Family, since their school, St. Mary’s Academy , was flooded in the storm and they were desperately trying to re-open. We had an incredible week filled with the Holy Spirit. We left feeling we had received much more than we had given; we cultivated friendships with each other, created lasting friendships with people we met in New Orleans, experienced a whole new love of Southern culture and hospitality, and, for me, cemented the knowledge that this trip wasn’t going to be my last.
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