My Ocean Springs: 2007 in Pictures

In the days following Hurricane Katrina, as relief trucks poured supplies into downtown churches, Ocean Springs’ city officials shot the lock off a vacated warehouse on Government Street simply to have a place to unload the supplies. The “old Swingster building” (as it is locally known) has been in business ever since. Eventually, the multi-church site gave way to Lutheran Social Services under the local care of Christus Victor Lutheran Church, and “Camp Victor” emerged. Suzie Harvey, assistant site director, stands in front of one of the beautiful murals painted by volunteers on the front of the formerly unoccupied building. Eighteen months after Hurricane Katrina, Camp Victor still serves 150 families per day on average, giving away an estimated $10,000 in supplies each day.