Collegiate Challenge - Mobile, Alabama - March 5-12, 2006
(photos courtesy of Rachel Jarrard)

During Spring Break 2006, twelve SJC students and staff traveled to Mobile, Alabama to work with Habitat for Humanity.  After a blessing from Fr. Tim McFarland, C.PP.S., the group left campus at midnight on Saturday, March 4, drove through the night and arrived at the Moffett Road Baptist Church on Sunday, March 5.  We visited Gulf Shores, Alabama and Lambert's Restaurant ("Home of the Throwed Rolls") before settling into our work.





We participated in a ground-breaking ceremony, roofed one house, and began framing of another house.  At the end of the week, students visited and worked at 15 Place, a transitional day shelter for homeless in downtown Mobile.







    

On the return trip, the group traveled along the Gulf Coast on Highway 90 from Biloxi to Gulfport and New Orleans, and observed the effects of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.

 

    



This was the second visit to Mobile for SJC Habitat for Humanity.  The campus chapter also worked in the area in 1998.