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

Thursday, June 18 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 following set of pictures show the progress that was made on the home of J. L. Martin on CR 4001. The wheel chair ramp is almost complete.
	The following group was at the Ida Powell site in Liberty Community. The entire porch, steps, and wheel chair ramp was replaced
	This project is a wheel chair ramp repair
	After completing interior repairs to the Bobbie Decambre home in Newton, a second team took over the construction of a brand new back porch.
	A brand new project on the Jamestown cut off in Sharpville. Pearl Adams house is receiving some needed exterior repairs and some paint.
	This picture shows the progress that had been made on the Brenda Jackson home in Bon Wier.