The UM ARMY in Newton, Texas

(The United Methodist Action Reach-Out Mission by Youth)

Made up of Chapelwood United Methodist Church in Lake Jackson, Springwood United Methodist Church in Houston, and Lane's Chapel in Tyler

June 14-20, 2009

Monday, June 15, 2009, work sites

	The UMARMY is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and is headquartered in Houston. Each summer hundreds of youth and adult mentors go on working mission trips throughout Texas. Recently, the organization is spreading to other states. These mission trips accomplish various tasks to help clients such as building wheel chair ramps, making minor repairs, cleaning up yards and cutting grass, painting, and the like. While these activities are of benefit to clients and communities, the primary goal is the spiritual formation of the youth. The youth work hard for their clients, and the daily worship and prayer is focused on relating their work experiences to their spiritual lives. That is to say, they work as part of the body of Christ in his world and for God's children. In it is an extraordinary organization that is making disciples for Christ for the transformation of the world.  The UM ARMY was gracious enough to replace our old church sign on the corner of Court and East Streets. This shows the demolition.
	The following pictures were taken on Monday at the various work sites. The first work site is Ida Powell's place in Liberty. Her porch, steps, and wheel chair ramp were all rotten. The project consisted of complete demolition and rebuilding the structure.
	The Glover's house just north of Newton on 87. The project included scraping and painting the rail around the porch
	Pam Cox lives off of Walthall. Her back porch and ramp needed major modifications, and a transition from the back door to the porch.
	The Gibsons needed handrails for the back steps at their house
	Pearline Abraham lives off of MLK on Kerr Street. She needed her wheel chair ramp flooring replaced and the skirting around her home repaired.
	Glenda Hutchinson lives off of 87 South in Pine Grove. The roof over her porch was leaking. This required removing the old roofing, adding additional rafters, and replacing the roofing with fiberglass sheeting.
	The following project is also in Pine Grove off of CR 4012 (by the Baptist Church). This was a demolition and replacement of front porch and a new wheel chair ramp.
	Bobbie Belcambre lives on US 190 East just across the street from the NISD building. The project was the addition of a porch to the back of the house and some repairs to interior door trim.