The Quinn Family: Spring Break

Monday, March 30, 2009

Spring Break

Jimmy had a great spring break trip! He took 11 or so students down to Port Arthur, TX to serve that community after the hurricane hit last year. They went down with a few other Oklahoma groups and worked with a missions project called Nehemiah's Vision. The first day they spent most of the afternoon pulling up weeds on a sidewalk and earned lots of blisters from that. However, the rest of the week was spent helping to renovate a family's home that was badly damaged b/c of the hurricane. He said the students were awesome - everyone got along, had some good laughs. Overall, it was a really great trip - quite different from his spain 75 mile walk last year though! It's so great to work in a church that serves Jesus through so many different avenues. We feel so fortunate! Here's a short write up Jimmy did that was posted on the church's website last week that describes in more detail the trip. And some pictures too!

Over spring break, we took a group of college students to Port Arthur, TX to help with the hurricane devastation from Hurricane Ike in 2008. Our students worked hard despite blisters, being eaten by fire ants and even stepping on nails! We spent most of our time helping a young family restore parts of their home that was damaged by the hurricane. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, this family fled to Port Arthur, not realizing they would experience another devastating hurricane a few years later. On the family's home, we managed to redo the roof, paint the exterior of the house, plywood and sheetrock a weathered room, fix some other odd jobs and most importantly, minister to this young family by sharing with them God's unconditional love. The best part of the trip was seeing the friendship that was developed between our students and this family and knowing we made an eternal impact on them. The father considers us his family and will be vacationing in Oklahoma soon! Please keep this family of six in your prayers.