Ooooooooklahoma...bound

On the path of the Maclay Gardens in Tallahassee

A handful of St. Andrews youth are left Dunedin for Moore, Oklahoma today.  We are going to serve with Adventures in Mission in Moore, Oklahoma.  We are doing post-tornado clean-up.  You may recall that an EF-5 tornado struck at about 3:00 pm on May 20, 2013 with peak winds estimated at 210 miles per hour and lasting about 40 minutes.  The storm killed 23 people and injured 377 others. 

So we go to do what we can to help them. 

Today, the nine of us left the church at 5:30 am and drove to First Nazarene Church in Mobile, Alabama where an aunt of our youth minister, Nicky Clark, worships.  We will bed down here for the night and get an early start for a 12 hour trip tomorrow.  It will be our long day of travel.  All went well today.  The students slept mostly.  We stopped in Tallahassee at the Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park for some time of stretching our legs and taking in God's beautiful creation.  Other than that, it was all travel.  

At the church, we met up with Nicky's aunt, the new pastor, the youth leader, and some other staff.  They then fed us a meal and then our youth joined theirs for some games.  Now, it's time for bed.  We are getting an early start tomorrow.