Danny Wuerffel Quotations

It's a hard thing to have a school with no home. For me, what could be a better scenario than to be able to serve kids from New Orleans and be back in my hometown? I really wonder if I'm going to wake up and this will be just a dream.

Then a young girl came out of one of these condemned buildings carrying an old doll, ... And I realized she lived there. I was shocked that somebody could actually live in a place like that.

I wept this morning thinking about our city. I was thinking about the families and children who drowned in their homes. It's a sad thing but we see an opportunity to do a greater good than has ever been done.

I wept this morning thinking about our city and thinking about the many families and children that probably drowned in their homes, so it's incredibly sad. And yet somehow at the same time we've experienced a kind of joy and vision and see an opportunity to do a greater good than we've ever done before.

Our ministry's mission is to revitalize the Desire neighborhood. It was once ranked the worst neighborhood in the country. We may have an opportunity to rebuild it in the way everyone would want it to be.

The Gator Nation is stepping forward in an incredible way. 'How can we help?' are the four biggest words I've heard in the last week.

It's been a great opportunity for us to continue working in the lives of these kids, especially with the intense trauma they've faced. It's not been an easy year, there's been a lot of difficult things to deal with ... but we're very blessed to continue doing the work and looking forward to what's next.

That's currently all we own after we left.

We don't have buses, we don't have school books, we don't have a lot of things. We're looking to start a new school with nothing.

We saw our neighbor's house on a photo, and it was up to roof with flooding. So we can only assume it's the same for ours.