Mission Trip- First Work Day

Hey blog followers!

 

We had a wonderful day today in the Beaumont, Port Arthur, Nederland area! Today we started off strong at 4 sites: Painting a Church in Port A, Sheet-rocking a house in Nederland, and working for the salvation army and a place called “some other place” in Beaumont!

 

News from the paint site:

 

In the morning we started prepping our site, FUMC Port Arthur, by putting down drop cloths through the entire hallway. After lunch we started painting the hallway, (the exact same color miraculously) and finished a good first coat of paint. The students had a bunch of fun with our site leader, a pastor of the church who is a former police officer. Owns a tazer.

 

News from the sheet rock site:

 

After a very fun adventure getting to our site we got there just in time to meet our clients the Buches (the husband was just leaving for work). They are an awesome couple who has been affected by two hurricanes (Rita and Ike). Unfortunately, they are currently in an insurance battle because their insurance company is saying they are only responsible for “one house repair of this size.” So for now, we’re what they’ve got.  With two rooms (including 1/2 of a small living room) out of commission, the Buches are really glad to have us there to provide some assistance. We had many fun adventures on our worksite putting up sheetrock, and we learned how heavy those things really are and how important it is to have a good drill and a solid surface on which to put your table saw J. We’re very excited about tomorrow!

 

 

News from salvation army:

 

News from some other place:

 

It was a very exciting first day at Some Other Place on Monday, as a group we got to tour the facility and see what it is exactly they do.  It is a very cool place that is three separate buildings and a community center.  They give homeless people a place to go during the day to keep them off the street and out of trouble.  Our first task was at a place called Henry’s Place which is a part of Some other place where they allow people to come in, shower and wash their clothes during the day.  Our task was to re-organize a big storage shed, and the kids worked very hard and we finished it ahead of schedule.  After Henry’s Place we did prep work at their soup kitchen for their lunch the next day, by cutting up squash, peppers and carrots.  After that we were done for the day, but not before Henry the head of the kitchen gave us cheesecake to take with us.  Tomorrow we will be going back and actually getting to serve them lunch.  It was a very good first day and I hope that it continues all week while we are there.

 

Well, I guess its hasta luego! Sorry if the updates come in at funny times, we are having some internet connection problems!

 

JFTB, Chelsea, Dan, and Elise