Richard Shaver (l) and Ralph Stephenson work on reconstructing stairs to a camp dormitory.
Team works at high elevation, with cool temperatures
Texans on Mission Camp Builders are at the midway point of a three-week project at Aspendale Mountain Retreat Center outside Cloudcroft, New Mexico. After summer camps ended, TXM volunteers began work building two cabins and reconstructing a stairway to a dormitory.
Larry Quinn, coordinator of TXM Camp Builders, said the team of eight men and five women will wrap up their part of the project next week. The camp will later bring electrical service to the cabins and finish the project.
A team from Walnut Ridge Baptist Church in Mansfield, Texas, framed the two cabins that TXM Camp Builders roofed, wired, insulated and sheetrocked. "Great to piggyback on this congregation's great work," leaders said.
Aspendale is a Baptist camp in the Sacramento Mountains near Lincoln National Forest at an elevation of about 9,000 feet above sea level.