We have arrived!! Our group arrived in Texas City, TX about 4:00 this evening, met the interns, toured the mission station and settled in. We are sharing the mission station with a wonderful group from Albuquerque, NM and Odessa, TX! We are excited to get to know them and work along side them! Since today was all orientation, and there's not much to report, we'll give you a little history of Galveston...
Galveston, TX is an island. Most of their economy comes from tourism. Around the 1900s, a hurricane devastated the island, wiping out almost everything and killing thousands. Lesson learned, they build a seawall. Fast forward a century, Hurricane Ike descended on Galveston. While the seawall held, the back end of the island (the part not protected by the seawall) got hit pretty hard and much of the island was flooded. There was anywhere from 2-10 feet of water covering the island.
Starting tomorrow, we will be putting up sheet rock and replacing siding at the Central Christian Church in Galveston and helping to replace siding for members of the church.
This evening we are getting ready to have a quick devotion and head to bed. It's going to be an early morning!
Stay tuned, work starts tomorrow...
(1) Our group, clad in red for Pentecost, outside the Disciples Mission Station in Texas City, TX...this will be our home for the week.
(2) Meet the DHM interns #1: Will hails from Minnesota, and is a student at Cheryl's alma mater, Eureka College in Illinois. (yay!)
Andrew isn't the only one is ready for bed!
