We've Arrived!

We have arrived in Texas City, TX after many interesting trials. Fortunately, we are all here safe with all of our luggage, which is the important thing!

We started our day off on Saturday morning at Towson Presbyterian Church saying our goodbyes to our families. Thanks to all of the awesome parents who drove us to the airport!



After arriving at BWI, everything went smoothly through security and we hopped on the plane for Texas. 

 Most of us took this as an opportunity for a small nap.

When we got to Houston (and enjoyed the smoooooothest baggage claim I have ever experienced), we waited for what was way too long to get our rental cars.

                Ben oh so patiently waiting for our vans......

Eventually, we got our 5 Dodge vans and headed out in style on the road to Texas City.  My personal favorite anecdote from our ride has to be the choice in radio stations in Houston. They have your classic rock, light FM, and country stations. However, they have three things that we don’t have: hip hop gospel, hottest bluegrass hits, and about 9 completely spanish speaking stations (which is not an exaggeration!). My personal favorite was the hip hop gospel music.

Despite a couple of wrong turns, we arrived at the 1st Presbyterian Church where our PDA village is housed. Linelle, our site leader, and Doug, our work leader, are extremely helpful and welcoming. We were greeted with a delicious dinner of mac and cheese, hot dogs, baked beans and bacon. The pods we are staying in are very nice despite close quarters. We are very blessed to have such a nice place to live this week while we do God’s work.

This morning, we will be attending the 10:30 church service. After church, we are going to have some lunch and head to the Kemah Boardwalk for some “fun day off” time before we kick into gear EARLY tomorrow morning (I mean... 5:30, early!).

We cannot wait to see what this week will bring. Please keep praying for us at home as we start building from the inside out in Texas.

More pictures and stories later,
Britt