Gulfport Mission Trip - 2

We measured the trim for the door, cut carefully ( we still have fingers) and LOOK, it fits! This was at the McGrew Family Home.

Gulfport, Mission Trip - 1

We arrived in Gulfport on Saturday evening, scoped out the accomodations, had dinner at Lookout 49, and hit the hay. We were up early Sunday morning and some of us took a quick trip to the beach before church. After church it was lunch and another quick trip to the beach to build sandcastles and chat on the phone with the folks at home. We soon met Lynn, our leader and "taskmaster" for the week, and got ready for our week of mission!



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Mission Trippers study the jelly fish, sting rays and horse shoe crabs.

Pastor Chris enjoys a quick phone call with Rita.

Will Brandt and Josh Smith model their customized do-rags made by Carolyn Moody, exclusively for our trip!

Photos may not be quite in order, and may not have all the sites we worked, we'll work hard to collect photos of our different adventures...since we had photographers at all the scenes on our journey. Check back for more exciting details!

Mission Trip to Gulfport Mississippi July 19 - 26 2008

Saturday July 19, 14 of the 16 OHPC Mission Trippers will meet at the Oak Hill parking lot, and head south to Gulfport to work with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance in rebuilding the Gulf Coast region, still recovering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. ( Two of our group are heading out on Friday, on their motorcycles) Check back here for mini updates and photos. You can also check for twitter updates at http://bonniebluedenim.blogspot.com/. A special thanks to Iris and George Soscia who will be forwarding "twitter" updates to our blog from our on the scene reporter, Donna Cook. We hope this works. All of us know only enough( about the computer and our cell phones) to be dangerous. Keep all of us in your prayers and we'll be back July 26! Have a great week!

Edited July 28, 2008

We moved our twitter pics and twitter updates to our side bar....and will be posting new posts above about our trip! Please be patient while we catch up!

Habitat Blitz Build - 4

To God Be The Glory!

Habitat Blitz Build -3

We had about 15 people, and what is amazing is most of the folks took a day of vacation to work with OHPC's Mission Team at the Blitz Build. It was a little hot and humid...ok ....it was real hot...and humid, but we had lots of ice and water, and lunch provided by Orlando's.

Habitat Blitz Build - 2

It was a beautiful day in St. Louis, a few showers in the morning, but the sun was out by the time we started work. Our group put up the roof and insulation on the exterior of house #14.

Habitat Blitz Build

Oak Hill Presbyterian Church spent the day on Friday July 11 21008 at the Habitat For Humanity Blitz Build.

Habitat will build 27 homes during the 2008 build season. Their build will take place in a familiar stomping ground for many of the Habitat Volunteers, the JeffVanderLou (JVL) neighborhood. Habitat built 20 homes in 2004 and another 20 in 2006 in JVL. Those homes were built on Bacon, Coleman, Garrison, & St. Louis Ave. This year's build will be near the intersection of Grand Ave. and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr., roughly six blocks south of the 2004 and 2006 build locations.


Interesting Info on the 2008 Build
Home style will be a combination of one-story, two-story, and one-and-a-half story homes
The one-story homes will be slab on grade, which is new for HFHSL this year
Exteriors will be a Nova Brick front and Pre-Finished Cement Fiber Siding
Exterior wall dimensions are 2' x 6' on 24" OC (on center)
Exterior wall sheathing will be 5/8" OSB (oriented strand board)
Foundations are a Pre-Cast Insulated Foundation System
Utilities will be underground
Roofs will be Foiled-Backed Roof Sheathing
..and Habitat will provide dishwashers to the 2008 homebuyers!