Mission Team Returns Home from Louisiana, Blessed by Service
Twenty-eight mission team members, including a few from Auburn First United Methodist Church, recently returned home from a mission trip to the UMCOR Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin, Louisiana, where they were blessed with a week of meaningful service, Christian fellowship, and spiritual growth.
The team was grateful for the opportunity to be the hands and feet of Christ through their work at the Depot and in the surrounding Baldwin and Franklin communities, including the following outreach efforts:
Assembled and installed a wheelchair ramp for an individual who did not have safe access to enter and leave her home.
Helped at Hope Floats Boutique (ministry for developmentally challenged adults).
Worked with participants and played games at St. Mary’s Center of Hope (a ministry for developmentally challenged adults).
Helped at Chez Hope (family violence crisis center and facility for survivors of domestic abuse).
Verified and assembled more than 3,600 hygiene kits.
The team returned home with hearts full of gratitude and a deeper awareness of God’s presence in both service and fellowship. This journey served as a reminder that when we answer God’s call to serve, lives are touched, faith is strengthened, and communities are blessed. The mission team would also like to thank the KUMC congregation for the many ways you supported this trip through your gifts, your encouragement, and especially your prayers. The team truly felt those prayers. Your partnership made this mission possible, and the team is grateful for the opportunity to share in God’s work together.
