Hands, Feet and Voices
Jumping at a chance to build up an island so that the glory of God can shine!
How we use construction as an outreach on one of America's most popular beaches.
Adventures In Missions Meets Hilton Head's Deep Well Project
Hilton Head is an island full of beauty. The thick dense woods stretch to the ocean shores creating a vast difference of scenery. As vast as the sights are so are the people. It is an island where poor coincides with the rich and classes backgrounds show a history rich with details of how America came to be. Cemeteries holding remains of freed slaves sit close to beach resorts. Among those living on the island are descendants of the Gullah.
The Gullah people are the descendants of the slaves who worked on the rice plantations in South Carolina and Georgia. On the Sea Islands, the rice and cotton plantations were abandoned after the Civil War, leaving the Gullah there in one of the most geographically isolated regions in the United States.They still live in rural communities in the coastal region and on the Sea islands of those two states, and they still retain many elements of African language and culture. While the land entrusted to these descendants is able to be lived on, they may not sell it with out the permission of every single descendant in their family line. Therefore they have a house on "prime real-estate" and have not way to sell it. Even while working full time most Gullah people live on or just above the poverty line.
Our groups were excited to join Hilton Heads Deep Well Project. Deep Well is a ministry that reaches out to poor and less fortunate people of Hilton Head Island.
We were blessed to be able to come alongside of these wonderful people and help them fix up a few homes. Our groups from Michigan and South Carolina worked in the summer heat for hours with nothing but joy, excitement and love pouring out of them. They cleared yards, took down trees, painted a house, put in flooring, electrical work, visited and shared the Lord's love with the family. They truly were the hands, feet and voices the Lord used to touch the lives of these families.
