With Summer being officially over, we wanted to give a huge THANK YOU to all of the workgroups

Galveston Urban-Ministries is with Steve Pless.

With Summer being officially over, we wanted to give a huge THANK YOU to all of the workgroups that volunteered with us this summer season!!
We had a total of 376 workgroup volunteers that came from different churches and schools throughout Texas.
We even had a group come down from Illinois and Pennsylvania and braved the Texas heat!
While at GUM, the workgroups served our community a total of 11,952 hours through neighborhood cleanup, helping neighbors in their homes, leading street camps, hosting a neighborhood block party, and more!
We are blessed to partner with such wonderful groups who are willing to spend some of their Summer time loving on our community.
Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts!

OUR STORY
In the summer of 2010, while jogging on the streets of Chicago, God broke Josh Dorrell’s heart for the city of Galveston.
It was four little words that did it: “Galveston is the place.” Josh described it as the “clearest voice I had ever heard." 
He went home and told his wife, Danielle, who was at home with their two-year-old daughter Zoe. Barely able to pick out Galveston on a map, the Dorrell's packed up and found themselves in Galveston that very same weekend.
Armed with a 3 year start-up grant from Christian Mission Concerns, they hit the ground running.
The Dorrell's moved into the North Broadway neighborhood, one of the communities hardest hit by Hurricane Ike, and began just doing life with their neighbors.
In addition to doing disaster recovery for a short season, the Dorrell's organized street camps for the neighborhood kids, and Josh even took a job at Wright Cuney, the local community rec center. Having been part of Mission Waco with his parents Jimmy and Janet Dorrell, Josh knew that in order to affect real change, his neighbors needed to be a part of the solution.
So he began interviewing everyone he came across, asking them “how can we make this neighborhood we love better?”
The answers came pouring in, but three answers seemed to outshine the rest: after-school programs for kids, mentoring programs for youth, and adult job training.
From these needs, Galveston Urban Ministries was born.
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