Here's an account of one of many teams of Campus Crusade students getting their first taste of city reaching by participating in Katrina relief efforts.

This team was sent out from the Boston Winter Conference and clearly God used them and blessed them in the process.

The link has information about past and future trips that mobilize thousands of students across the US. This is a sign that a generation of ambassadors of God's mercy is growing and has the potential to change the world.

College Hill for Christ: "While in New Orleans, we did many things during our week-long trip. Half the time was spent at people's homes: moving furniture out, cleaning, and gutting (i.e. ripping up the baseboards and carpets, tearing down the dry wall). These homes were in 6 feet of water for weeks, so they're basically uninhabitable. The other half of the time was spent at the camp site (big tents in the parking lot of a stadium in City Park). While at the camp site, we'd help cook lunch/dinner for 300-600 people (we'd eat with them too!). We also helped run the distribution store, where there were clothes, canned foods, dry goods, and toiletries. All of this (the food, the store, the service) was free of charge.

Additionally, every night we visited a half-way house in downtown for drug addicts. We also spent an afternoon at the 'projects', playing and hanging out with the dozens of children (4-16 years old)--who were starving for attention, to say the least--as they arrived home from school.

The other volunteers came from all over the country. There are a few full-time volunteers, but most of the volunteers are like us--young people wanting to help out in any way we can. We met students from Illinois, Wisconsin, Okalahoma, Nevada, and Florida, just to name a few."