For the past 6 years the Salvage Yard has been going to Mardi Gras. Why? To talk to people about Jesus and be a light in a dark and difficult party atmosphere or New Orleans.

“People come from all over the world to get away with all kinds of sin or satisfy their pleasures right before Lent,” Sarah Allen, missionary to Mardi Gras writes. “I guess it's kind of a twisted theology that people adopt just so they can do what feels good.”

Along with Sarah, Joi O'Dell and Shelley Lites will join about 200 other mostly college age people in the Big Easy.

Sarah reflects on her past experiences at Mardi Gras:

“I guess it's like me going from one family to another great big family reunion. I love going because I always leave refreshed and encouraged to love others, and have a deeper passion for Jesus. It really helps me to focus on the needs of others and not my own, and to refocus on what's important in my life, and to remind myself that God is always interested in me, no matter where I am in life or in the world.”

Their prayer requests: Safety, a deeper passion for Jesus, God to use them in unusual ways, God to speak through them to the people in New Orleans, and that they would just be able to glorify him wherever they go in New Orleans.