Joyful Gathering

Shell Point residents and staff gathered together at The Island Courtyard and Friendship Point to enjoy food, music and fellowship, express their gratitude, and mark the six-month post-storm milestone with a celebration of life together at Shell Point. With the significant majority of displaced residents returned to their homes and the campus restoration well underway, we took a moment to look back, see how far we’ve come, and reflect on all God has provided.

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Bob and Beth Bauer (Enclave) and Mike Scott (Enclave)

The word that Martin and many others I know have been using for the last six months is “grateful,” and it's just a decision that we have made to focus on the provision of God and His blessings on Shell Point. That is what today is all about.

— Jim Clark, Director of Employee Ministry

“In the Old Testament, it was often a practice to set up altars as markers of something significant whether that was an encounter with God, whether that was a covenant, whether that was a contract. And so we want today to be an altar of remembrance that from here forward, we can always look back on this day as a sign of when we paused for a moment to reflect, to demonstrate gratitude, and to be reminded of God’s goodness and grace and hand in our lives as a community over this past six months.”

— Martin Schappell, President

BY JEFF CORY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LEGACY FOUNDATION