Hey all. Here’s the first Daytona post for the 09 trip.

We rolled out from the DC around 6ish. We had to make a temporary pit stop to fill up the tires on one of the vans at Handy Andy. It may have taken 3 guys to figure out how to do it, but it got done.

The drive down was relatively uneventful. Learning from last year’s experience, we left at night, to cut down on the amount of bathroom breaks we had to take. Last year we left in the early afternoon, and ended up stopping almost every 2 hours for bathroom breaks. This year we mostly stopped to switch drivers, about every 3 or 4 hours.

We arrived at our home base, the El Caribe at about 11. Since then, we’ve had lunch, with several of us going to Wendy’s, and then most of the group members are out enjoying the beautiful weather on the beach.

Thanks for everyone’s prayers. We had a safe trip down with no accidents or incidents whatsoever. Please continue to keep us in your prayers as we prepare to minister this week in Daytona.

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For those of you who have not heard yet, our Spring Break ministry will be a bit different this year from years past. The park where we had served food at for the last 2 years, Sun Splash, did not allow us to make a reservation. I’m not 100% sure about the details, but it has some to do with the amount of people we draw in, specifically the homeless.

So we’ve decided to continue to minister, but in a different form. We’re going to split up into a couple different groups. One group will go to where the homeless tend to hang out, with some bag lunches and possibly toiletries. Another group will set up a volleyball court and just hang out with whoever wants to play with us. And we may send a 3rd group just to talk to people at sun splash, sans food. But that’s just a tentative plan. Who knows what God has in store for us.