Spring Break Mission Trip

Mission Trip Announcement #1:
Due to a lack of adults our Spring Break mission trip to
Oceans Springs, MI to work clean-up for hurricanes
Katrina and Rita has been cancelled.

Mission Trip Announcement #2:
Due to the cancellation of the aforementioned mission
trip Mark will be working on planning a Rochester
mission trip. This mission trip will take place in
Rochester, MN over spring break. For this trip we will
do all the things we would normally do on a mission
trip, but with greater emphasis on the “mission” part
and less on the “trip” part. This will be a great
opportunity to work at some new service places around
town and to see a part of Rochester that may be new to
you. We'll serve together on April 4-6.

Stay tuned for more information.

Ocean Springs, MS Current Weather and Forecast

Population (year 2000): 17,225.
Estimated population in July 2005: 17,783 (+3.
2% change)
Males: 8,300 (48.2%), Females: 8,925 (51.8%)

Jackson County
Zip codes: 39564, 39565.

Median resident age: 37.5 years
Median household income: $45,885 (year 2000)
Median house value: $98,900 (year 2000)

Races in Ocean Springs:
•        White Non-Hispanic (86.2%)
•        Black (7.0%)
•        Hispanic (2.5%)
•        Two or more races (1.5%)
•        Vietnamese (1.2%)
•        American Indian (1.0%)
•        Other race (0.6%)

Ancestries: German (14.9%), English (14.4%),
Irish (12.0%), United States (9.6%), French
(8.8%), Italian (5.0%).

Elevation: 30 feet

Land area: 11.6 square miles

- When it made landfall, Katrina was a
Category Four storm featuring gusts
topping 140 miles an hour (225
kilometers an hour). Category Five
storms Hurricane Camille, which
struck the Mississippi coast in 1969,
and Hurricane Allen, which made
landfall near Brownsville, Texas, in
1980, both packed maximum
sustained winds of about 190 miles an
hour (306 kilometers an hour).

- Officials believe that the death toll
from Katrina could reach into the
thousands. More than a million Gulf
Coast residents have been displaced
and many of the refugees were living
below the poverty line before the
storm struck.

- According to NOAA, the U.S.
locations with the highest probability
for hurricane strikes are: Miami,
Florida (48 percent); Cape Hatteras,
North Carolina (48 percent); and San
Juan, Puerto Rico (42 percent). New
Orleans has about a 40 percent annual
chance of a hurricane strike.