A Wild and Crazy April

Wow! If you have been reading Dottie's blog entries you know what an exciting month this has been for the Wounded Warriors at Nebo Ministry Team. With lots of help from the community it hosted 7 separate events for the wounded warriors and their families. You have seen photos of the day fishing trip and card classes, but not from some of the other wonderful events. So, I want to give you an additional peek at what has been happening.

On Saturday, April 13 the choir and other members from Fredericksburg United Methodist Church (FUMC) travelled to the Warrior and Family Support Center to provide a meal and concert to families and staff assigned to the Wounded Warrior Battalion. To make that possible this wonderful group of men stayed up all night barbecuing. Gaylon brought his very fancy barbecue pit (It barbecues, smokes, heats and bakes) to David's house to prepare brisket, chicken and sausage.  Lucky me!!! Since I was there to take photos I got the very first sausage link.  Umm, Umm good!


Left to Right: Ray Sims, David Wiemers, Ray Brown, Galen Neitsch, Archie Klein


Then on Saturday afternoon all involved travelled

to San Antonio to feed and perform for the warriors and their families.  The Fredericksburg United Methodist Choir chartered a bus to travel the 70+ miles.  Fredericksburg Salutes Our Wounded Warriors donated towards the expense, but each individual choir member paid a portion of the cost out of his or her pocket. I just love my church family, because they are always willing to give of their time and money to try to help others!





I cannot begin to express the joy I feel when we serve our wounded warriors and their families.  It is so good to see them away from what they must go through to heal.  It is so good to see laughter in their faces and know that, at least for a little bit, they have a respite.

The choir members (the ones in red) made sure that they expressed their appreciation to the warriors and their families for the sacrifices they are making. Having said that, I know that all of us who were there to serve received such a blessing.  These warrior families are so very courageous and because of that give encouragement and  hope to all of us.
If they, who have suffered so much, can perserver in overcoming life's challenges how can we not!


On Saturday January 20 The Wounded Warriors at Nebo Ministry team tried another first.  We invited a small group of warriors to take a photography class in Fredericksburg.  We enlisted the help of Jim Heupel, a professional nature photographer, to teach the class.  He lectured during the first part of the event and then took the warriors to the Von Netzer Ranch where the students had the opportunity to practice what they learned.  When they left they were already talking about a second session.  So, I think the class was a success!  Yea!!!!

Left to Right: Garet Von Netzer, Jim Heupel, Jeff Washburn, Dan Burgess, Michael and Maria Hicks.

The could not have been more perfect.  The sky was clear and temperature perfect.  The photographers had the opportunity to take photos of jack rabbits, black tailed antelope, exotic sheep, etc.

Whew!  Would you believe that is not all we did in April, but I am out of time.  So, Dottie or I will have to post again to tell you about the 5K/10K Wild Flower Run and our respite weekend.