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Gulf Coast Chapter |
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Coordinators become involved with annual training |
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Every year, usually around February or early March coordinators of Lutheran congregations gather to enjoy a day of learning and fellowship. This year the gathering was held at St. John Lutheran Church in Robstown, where the Women of the Church prepared a delicious barbecue lunch complete with desert. | |
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2008 Join Hands Day Activities |
Mariposa Park prior
to clean-up
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A homeless shelter
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clean-up
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Each year Fraternal Benefit Societies gather to
benefit an area of the community.
In 2008 The Gulf Coast Chapter of Thrivent
Financial for Lutherans teamed up with the
YMCA of the Coastal Bend and the City of Corpus
Christi to clean up a much neglected park just
below the YMCA in Corpus Christi.
Youth and adults picked up saws, rakes, loppers
and pruning shears to clean up Maripos Park. |
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Gulf Coast Chaper Sponsors Park Clean Up |
Artist Michael Manjarris created Mariposa Park in November, 1989 with the help of several homeless persons. Pictured below are volunteers from the YMCA of the Coastal Bend, several Lutheran congregation members, and leaders of the Gulf Coast Chapter fulfilling a morning of work during Join Hands Day 2008.A little lower on the page are what appears to be colorful clay impressions of fishes, boats and other symbols pressed into the concrete. From the park is a sweeping view of Corpus Christi Bay. The park is located just below the YMCA of the Coastal Bend on South Chapparal Street in Corpus Christi, Texas. |
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Some of the art found at Mariposa Park. | 
Brush covered a large area of where homeless people had set up shelter. | 
Gulf Coast Chapter Leader Raymond Brundrett prepares hotdogs for the volunteers. |
Some folks worked up a good sweat. | 
A concrete hide out for a homeless person. | 
Brush cut from Maripose Park stacked up at the curb of Upper Broadway to be hauled away. |
It's time to prepare your hotdog to enjoy with sodas, chips and cookies. | 
A group enjoying their hotdogs. | 
By noon many of the volunteers were dog tired. |
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A wall, approximately 50 feet long stretches along a section of Mariposa Park. It contains an artists work of fishes and other symbols.
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Established in November of 1989 Mariposa Park is only a short distance from downtown Corpus Christi. At one time, on the bluff side of the park, were metal cut-outs of cows on skewers that waved in the wind about 20 or so feet above the ground. |
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Clay impressions of sea life pressed into the concrete wall at Mariposa Park. |
A sculpture uncovered during
the clean up at Maripos Park. |
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Park Ranger address the group before heading out to the beach. |
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With trashbags in hand, and a supply of bottled water, young and old get prepared to meet the challenges of the National Seashore at Malaquite Beach. |
===================================================Stay away from the dunes. The dunes along Padre Island are known for one of natures most dangerous creatures, the rattle snake. The dunes also protect the island from waves that may result from hurricanes and tropical storms. ==================================================== |
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Adult and youth from Our Savior Lutheran Church in Corpus Christi, prepare for a morning of clean up at the National Seashore |
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The group from Our Savior Lutheran Church have been great supporters of Join Hands Day activities for the past several years. This group is due some special recognition.==================================================== |
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The National Seashore at Malaquite Beach |
Here you will find approximately 3 miles of pristine shoreline, just full of nature's beauty. |
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There are a number of beautiful ocean creatures, but don't mess with the Man-O-War jellyfish that wash up. Leave them to the seagulls and other predators to pick up. |
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Flora amoung the dunes at Malaquite Beach | |
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Recognition for a job well done....... |
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A busy chapter is a happy chapter |
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