RAINSVILLE, Ala. – Instead of basking in the sun on a beach in Hawaii earlier this month during her spring break, 12-year-old Logan Etheredge of Darien, Conn., spent a week with her family rebuilding houses in DeKalb County damaged by the April 27, 2011, tornadoes.
Logan convinced her family to change their Hawaii vacation plans to work on a church mission trip in Northeast Alabama.
That’s right – a seventh-grader chose a vacation of hammers and nails, power tools and removing debris, over a beach chair and softly breaking waves.
Logan said she always had wanted to go on a mission trip and when her church, Noroton Presbyterian, decided last year to come to DeKalb County during this year’s spring break to help with rebuilding efforts, she knew she wanted to go.
And since her younger brother, Grayson, 10, was now old enough to go, Logan said she began talking to her parents about going on their first mission trip as a family.