SCAPC Texas Mission Trip

Last week ten members of the SCAPC community headed to the Hill Country of Texas to visit and work in areas that were directly impacted by the July 4th floods along the Guadalupe River. In addition, the group took items and set up a respite room for the Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Conference Center Staff. Each day the SCAPC team (Anderson Baker, Gail Louapre, Sally Wimberly, Ruth Hickox, Lisa Eldredge, Mary Malone, John Wade, Will Tietje, Aimée Bell, and Chris Currie) ventured out to a neighborhood of homes that were destroyed or damaged by the flooding river. On one lot, they scoured it for personal effects, cleared brush and broken items, and mowed, weeded and pruned all the trees and shrubbery. On another lot, they stained the wooden cedar siding of a house that had taken over eight feet of water though was several hundred feet from the river. Perhaps most meaningfully, the group worshipped together and shared their reflections at Mo-Ranch's Chapel on the Hill Saturday night before returning home. As one of the group members eloquently put it, "So many people came to New Orleans after Katrina that I vowed that I would always try to participate in future work efforts in other communities."