It's very touching when people come from out of our community into Meridian and Lauderdale County to work with us. Especially on the hurricane relief.

They think they can get rid of us. It doesn't work that way.

Today we are actually redoing a house. Cleaning it up and repainting and getting it ready to place a family in that was a victim of Hurricane Katrina.

From late March through April, that will be our heaviest schedule. We'll have several houses going, and we'll need between 40-60 volunteers a week.

We'll do a little work on that, talk to some people around the community.

I'm just really excited to be working with people who work together for the betterment of a community. It's something I believe in, and it's where my heart is.