Spring 2006 Mission Trip

In February 2006, members of Yorkminster Presbyterian traveled to Orange Grove, MS to participate in the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance effort for the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes.
Mitch Houff
Mitch Houff
Mitch Houff proudly shows the interior of Pod 18, his home for four days
Susan Copenhaver
Susan Copenhaver
Susan Copenhaver shows off her beautiful plastic temporary shelter at Orange Grove Presbyterian Disaster Assistance Camp near Gulfport, MS
Dressmaker Club
Dressmaker Club
Podmates Penny Martin and Jenny Russell show off their dressmaking skills (actually, a dress found in the debris by earlier camp residents)
Casa Diggs
Casa Diggs
Jimmy and Charlene Diggs stand in front of their pod with an augmented roof at the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance camp for volunteers near Gulfport, MS
Appropriate sign
Appropriate sign
This sign was mounted on the exit drive from the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance Camp at Orange Grove Presbyterian Church near Gulfport MS
Sgt Nicholas prepares his weapon
Sgt Nicholas prepares his weapon
John Nicholas prepares a nail gun before building platforms for pods at the PDA camp at Orange Grove, MS
Platform building
Platform building
YPC members Mitch Houff, John NIcholas, Kevin King, Art Bishop and Jack Van Riper build platforms to raise the three-person folding tents above the wet ground at the PDA camp in Orange Grove, MS
Project house
Project house
A flood-damaged home in Long Beach, MS that Yorkminster volunteers 'mucked out' over the course of 2 full days
Kitchen demolition
Kitchen demolition
Jenny Russell and Jim Robertson tear out kitchen cabinets from a flood-damaged home near the beach in Long Beach, MS
Anna hamma
Anna hamma
Anna Copenhaver removes sheet rock from flood-damaged home near the beach in Long Beach, MS
Charlene Diggs
Charlene Diggs
Charlene Diggs removes wall debris from flood-damaged home near the beach in Long Beach, MS
Tchoutacabouffa roof
Tchoutacabouffa roof
The flood-damaged home near Biloxi that a team from Yorkminster and King's Grant Presbyterian Churches re-roofed in February 2006
Lunch break
Lunch break
Yorkminster members Mitch Houff, Richard Peters, John Nicholas, and Penny Martin stop for lunch after taking the damaged roof off a home on the Tchoutacabouffa river near Biloxi, MS
Bill Keeton
Bill Keeton
YPC member Bill Keeton led a team that rewired three flood-damaged homes in Biloxi, MS
Jack Van Riper
Jack Van Riper
Jack Van Riper helped rewire three flood-damaged homes near Biloxi, MS
Day's end
Day's end
Anna Copenhaver and Penny Martin wave goodbye to the homeowner of a flood-damaged home near Biloxi MS after two days of roof repair
Team photo
Team photo
Part of the YPC volunteer team before breaking camp at Orange Grove, MS; not shown are Art Bishop, Mitch Houff, Richard Peters and Bob Gifford
Volunteer village
Volunteer village
YPC member Bruce Jackson takes a final photo of the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance camp near Orange Grove, MS; the lighter blue 'pods' housed three cots while the darker blue 'pods' were for ten people.