Local mission team leaves for Del Rio

By Sam Waller

A team of volunteers from First Baptist Church of Albany left for Del Rio on Sunday, June 26 to help with a construction project.

The group has traveled to the Del Rio area several times to help work on buildings and churches in surrounding locations.

Team member John Ross Reames said the group had a lengthy job list they were going to try to get accomplished this week.

“We have to change out an air conditioner in a room we built the last time we were down there,” Reames said. “We want to put up some shelves in a laundry room, install some sheetrock, tile some floors in one bathroom and hopefully start on another bathroom. There was another team down before us that tore one bathroom out and redid it, and we’re just picking up where they left off.”

The team stays at one of its earlier renovation projects, a house donated to River Ministry and hosted by its donor. It is regularly used as lodging for mission teams working in the Rio Grande area of Texas and Mexico.

FBC members have often traveled to the border as well as to other states and countries on mission trips.

The mission team is set to return Friday, July. 1