Fort Worth church group spends spring break in New Orleans

FORT WORTH?One-hundred-and-six members of Glenview Baptist Church in Fort Worth spent spring break in New Orleans, laying floors and sheetrock for needy families and offering practical gifts in Jesus’ name.

The group of 55 adults, 38 youth, and 13 children left March 15 and headed to New Orleans.

“Our main three goals for our trip this year were to involve the body and teach our people about missions, intentionally cross-generationalize our congregation in order that our church body would become more unified, and that parents and children would build healthier relationships with one another,” said youth minister Bill Bray.

This year’s participants spanned from 7 years old to 69 years old. Over the week, the children passed out lunches and “Sacks of Love” and witnessed to about 300 homeless people and those living in housing projects.

Three of the crews, made up of adults and teenagers, laid floors for three Habitat for Humanity homes, and three more crews sheetrocked a 2,500 square-foot house and completely sheetrocked another home.

“It is exciting to see parents and children accomplishing the work that God has set out before us during that week. I encouraged all of our children to begin thinking more and more like missionaries and by the end of the week, they were doing just that,” said Zach Zettler, children’s minister.

“It is exciting to see how we can be used by God on a day-to-day basis,” one team member said.