Oak Alley Field Trip

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My cohort and I left for New Orleans a couple of days early due to a booking error, however we had planned on going on an excursion anyway so it worked out just fine. It was amazing to hear the history behind some of the plantations and to walk the same halls that these people walked in 170 plus years ago. The view from Oak Alley was breath taking a symbol that still stands as a testament to the South’s golden age. The trees were planted a 100 years before the land was purchased and a home was even built. The house is built completely around the twenty-six with twenty-six pillars that surround the house, twenty-six windows that open so that fresh air can blow through the hot humid house. It was Valcore Aime who originally purchased Oak Alley and used it for planting sugarcane. During our tour we learned of the Roman family and how an exchange took place with Valcour for the Romans plantation in which they were able to expand. Jacques Roman began to build a home now know as Oak Alley. It took three years to build and all bricks were made on-site while slate, glass for the windows and marble for the dinning room was shipped in by steamboat. This was also done and completed entirely with slave labor.
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Starting out and learning the history opened doors to talk to people on the street, which I used to help other people ministering to people, I used it to distract those waiting for a family member or friend. Through the preaching segments I learned I needed to surrender and work on correcting some things. I also did not realize this before I shared it with my cohort, but God had me sharing Jer. 29:11, and Jer. 1:5. Christ knew us before we were in your mother’s womb and He has a call on our lives, a purpose and a hope. We serve a Big God, and through the direction and organization of this conference, I have gone home empowered to continue to spread the love of

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