Houston (Vidor) Mission Trip – Day 3

This is my telling of my experience on the Boone First United Methodist Church Youth Group’s Mission Trip to Houston (Vidor). There were 18 people on the mission trip and all of them experienced the mission trip in a completely different way than I did.

Therefore, you should pull your tired bones out of bed on Sunday, July 8 and drag yourself to the basement of the Boone First United Methodist Church (703 Arden Street) between worship services (approximately 10 AM) and listen to the other 17 people give their testimony about the mission trip. I’ll probably run my yap as well. There will also be a video. Also, there will be refreshments.

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The Cowboys had breakfast prep. This means that you have to be in the kitchen by 6:45 to make breakfast for everybody. I like having this chore on Monday because it gets it out of the way early. Although truth is that the only chore I don’t really like is Building Maintenance because it involves cleaning toilets. I have that in common with many of my co-workers and the employees at that Road Ranger in Illinois.

This was my day in pictures:


Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Kolbe and Jordan cutting lunch supplies. Everybody makes and packs their own lunch. You eat lunch at your work site.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Anna bageling.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Mackenzie, right on time!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
The Schoff Boys waiting for breakfast.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
The breakfast prep team has to do a little skit to announce what is for breakfast in the morning. We had cereal.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
The Heat Waves had breakfast cleanup. Andy and Emily doing dishes.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Andy doing dishes.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Jentry.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Hailey clearing the tubs.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Donovan changing garbage.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Heat Waves cleaning up after everybody had packed their lunch.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Not going to lie, the Cowboys got probably the easiest work assignment. While most groups installed insulation and hung drywall, we puttied, caulked, and painted. Lots of window trim and doors.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Kolbe puttying.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Megan puttying.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Anna painting trim.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Mackenzie and Tiffany painting doors.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Lunch!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Megan and Cousin Kari painting doors.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Kolbe!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Anna!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Jordan and Anna!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
It still hadn’t stopped raining!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
A masterpiece.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Mackenzie!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Anna knocking out that door.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Jake from Missouri.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Megan!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Pretty flower!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
The Cowboys didn’t come to play (okay maybe a little bit)!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
More closet action!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Cleaning up for the day!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
More cleanup!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Mackenzie was our inventory master!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
A hard day’s work.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
More hard workers!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
A FEMA trailer. The woman who’s house we were working on lives in the FEMA trailer. She is 91 years old. I sent this picture to Flat Earth Joe because he believes that eventually we will all be rounded up into FEMA camps. If recent events are any indication, those FEMA camps will be abandoned Wal-Marts and Toys’r’Uses, but I wanted him to see FEMA at work.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Long shot of clean up.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
We took people to Sonic. That meant somebody had to go out in the rain to get the van.

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Guess who that was?

Houston Mission Trip - 2018

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
Sonic!

Houston Mission Trip - 2018

Houston Mission Trip - 2018
This game is called Signs. Megan is really, really bad at it. She was always in the middle.

YouthWorks has a nightly cultural event. This was easily the weakest that we ever had. Monday night’s cultural event was listening to a speaker from Nehemiah’s Vision. She came to the building we were staying at and spoke for about 15 minutes. The bonus was that there was more free time before worship in free time.

Not pictured: Kolbe really likes the song CARAVAN and the boys from the other churches really, really like the song COUNTRY ROADS.

2 thoughts on “Houston (Vidor) Mission Trip – Day 3”

  1. Chris running, he looks like a lineman from the 70’s stellars defense….beast

    Are there any southern baptist getting this blog?

  2. Not to my knowledge. My sister Teresa is engaged to a southern Baptist.

    I have a follower in Texas, but he is Methodist and one in Arkansas, but she is Catholic.

    I went to a Southern Baptist church service once. We left after 3 hours. It was still going on.

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