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Gulf Coast Chapter |
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Welcome! |
...to the Gulf Coast Chapter Web site! It's great to have you here!A Chapter of Excellence Award Winner - The 'get er done' chapter.
Chapter activities during 2008 included a community wide auction to raise funds for a child with cancer, to building a handicap-accessible play area at a local park. Our members make a difference everyday through our chapter system. Eighty-four (84) Chapter activities were conducted by the Gulf Coast Chapter, resulting in 22,448 volunteer hours. Funds raised by these local teams totaled $121,984.00, which were combined with $57,530.00 from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans to multiply the good we can do together. Thanks to your efforts that's a grand total of $179,514.00 of doing good in South Texas. | |
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2009 Join Hands Day |
Malaquite Beach at the National Seashore |
The Gulf of Mexico was an azure pool |
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Each year Fraternal Benefit Societies gather to
benefit an area of the community.
In 2009 The Gulf Coast Chapter of Thrivent
Financial for Lutherans teamed up with the
youth and adults from area Lutheran Congregations
to pick up trash along 3 miles of the National
Seashore at Malaquite Beach. |
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Gulf Coast Chaper Sponsors Invironmental Beach Clean Up |
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Armed with rubber gloves and trash bags volunteers hit the beach. | 
There's alway a large amount of plastic material that washes ashore with the seaweed. | 
Youth from St. Mark's Corpus Christi find strange items in the tital pools. |
When it's time for hotdogs, everyone is there with their tongues hanging out. | 
Some of the crew on hand for Join Hands Day 2009 | 
Marker indicates that vehicular traffic is not allowed, and to be on the look-out for b Ridley turtles hatchlings. |
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This is the only chapter website that has a flashing purple O. |
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Park Ranger address the group before heading out to the beach.(from 2008) |
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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. Oh, don't forget the sunscreen! |
===================================================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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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
(a picture from 2008) | |
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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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