The Hensley Family

The Hensley family is led by Blake Driskell and Carly Rees. Their students are Sammy Rees, Sumner Sparkman, Garret Jackson, Emily Johnson, Maddie McDonald, Drew Wilson, Lauren Uhls, Linzee Rosen and Josh Thomas.

They actually get to visit three different mission sites throughout the week. Monday and Tuesday mornings they went to Covvenant House. Then in the afternoons they went to Good Living. Today and tomorrow, they serve at Union Mission.

Covenant House is a nonprofit organization dedicated to working for justice by offering direct services for those in need and creating social change through advocacy and education. Covenant House, Inc is essentially an emergency day shelter and drop in center. They provide showers, laundry and financial assistance. At this site, our students helped with basic maintenance, landscaping and cleaning.

Good Living is a very small nursing home and has a very welcoming and home-style feel to it. It currently houses 8 residents. They needed our help with some landscaping, maintenance and painting jobs to help improve their neighborhood.

Union Mission Ministries seeks to meet the needs of WV through the provision of shelter, clothing, food, counseling, and structured programs for the poor, the needy, and those bound and bruised by addictive lifestyles. They house several ministries including food distribution, family counseling, a homeless shelter and a thrift store. Today the students helped in the thrift store - which was apparently an amazing experience...they loved it! Drew says he actually wants to work there when he grows up - because they are doing so many cool things to help people.

Union Mission is the reason we will be adding a typewriter to our cargo van (see previous blog entry), a keyboard that Sumner picked up - it was a "steal", a dress that is adorable that Maddie got for 50 cents, and also a ... oops, Emily Johnson swore me to secrecy on her "find".