You can read about it here:
The Mayor Pro Tem, Sheryl Cole, read the proclamation of thanks, when she presented the awards to our four clients. Below is a wonderful picture of the event showing Cole,Terry and the clients.
Street Youth Ministry of Austin exists to know, love and serve street-dependent youth. The first step of our mission is to notice street youth. Then we must understand their culture to know how to love and serve them. SYM spends time every day with more than 100 young adults. We provide basic services, counseling, referral to services, and Christian guidance counseling. It it a privilege to know these young people.
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Jun 1, 2014
Mayor Pro Tem Cole Reading Proclamation
We previously posted about our clients that helped the family out of their trapped car.
You can read about it here:
The Mayor Pro Tem, Sheryl Cole, read the proclamation of thanks, when she presented the awards to our four clients. Below is a wonderful picture of the event showing Cole,Terry and the clients.
You can read about it here:
The Mayor Pro Tem, Sheryl Cole, read the proclamation of thanks, when she presented the awards to our four clients. Below is a wonderful picture of the event showing Cole,Terry and the clients.
May 25, 2014
Clients Receive City of Austin Award
Street Youth Ministry had 24 clients at a laundry, for an event, when a four or five story scaffolding surrounding a new apartment complex collapsed during the terrible storm in West Campus (24th/San Gabriel) on the evening of April 7.
Two of our clients, Taz and Thomas, ran into the mess, even as stuff was still falling, to determine what was involved. They discovered that there was a car trapped under the rubble. You couldn't see it at all. They called out and learned that the people were trapped but OK. They came back and told us to call 911 to tell them about the people trapped in their car.
As we waited, two more clients, Jeremy Cruts and Chris Shirey, decided there wasn't time to wait for emergency response. There were live cables on the ground in the water, and the scaffolding rubble on the ground was still attached to the third of the scaffolding still on the building. The situation was definitely not stable.
They went into the rubble of pipes and boards to free the people trapped in their car under all the mess. They brought the four victims, a family badly shaken, back into the laundry with our group to wait for police and ambulance to arrive. All were OK.
Those four clients received the City of Austin Distinguished Service Award.
There was a write up in the university newspaper, The Daily Texan. Read the story here.
A comment to The Daily Texan article posted online:
Two of our clients, Taz and Thomas, ran into the mess, even as stuff was still falling, to determine what was involved. They discovered that there was a car trapped under the rubble. You couldn't see it at all. They called out and learned that the people were trapped but OK. They came back and told us to call 911 to tell them about the people trapped in their car.
As we waited, two more clients, Jeremy Cruts and Chris Shirey, decided there wasn't time to wait for emergency response. There were live cables on the ground in the water, and the scaffolding rubble on the ground was still attached to the third of the scaffolding still on the building. The situation was definitely not stable.
They went into the rubble of pipes and boards to free the people trapped in their car under all the mess. They brought the four victims, a family badly shaken, back into the laundry with our group to wait for police and ambulance to arrive. All were OK.
Those four clients received the City of Austin Distinguished Service Award.
There was a write up in the university newspaper, The Daily Texan. Read the story here.
A comment to The Daily Texan article posted online:
"Wow, and very true, they showed that heroism and bravery come in many forms, and not everyone on the street is what/who you may think they are about."
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