Hey everyone, we have made it safely to Cosby,
TN (it’s the little town we’re staying at next
to Newport).
Thanks to all those who have been praying for us, we appreciate your support.
Every day we’ll be posting stories from students, so here are a few from today
with our trip down. Enjoy!
As some may not know, this is my first high school mission
trip. I have a decent idea of how it will go from junior high, but I’m hoping
this can be a new experience for me. We just now found out our crews that we
will be working with all week, and I was hoping I would be at the same site all
four days, but I will actually be serving in a kid’s club for the first day, at
another site for one day and working on a farm the last two. This means that I
will have to try to make as big of an impact on these peoples’ lives in the
3-12 hours I may have with them… Wish me luck! –Grace Balasko
I have gone on quite a few mission trips in the past, once
to Alabama and a much closer to home Indianapolis with my old church, but this is my first with
the Fishers United Methodist
Church. I wasn’t quite
sure what to expect when I signed up to go. Here now, I’m finding out that it
is a much different atmosphere than any of the other trips I’ve been on.
Whereas the trip in Alabama was organized with many other churches, and the trip
to Indy consisted only of my churches youth group, this trip to Newport has two
churches, and even though we’ve only been together here for a few hours, the
fellowship between the two youth groups has become very apparent and I hope by
the end of the week we will all be very good friends. –Mattheus Mitchell
How to start a blog post? I guess the most logical place
would be the same place I seem to start every mission trip: with an injury. A
few hours into bonding with the other groups, we decided to play some Ultimate;
as we were making the last play of the game, I run after a stray pass to go for
the final point. The other team’s best defender decides to give me a hit I’ll
remember: the big, white, obvious church van picks a fight with me, and I came
out the loser. Luckily the other church’s van is made out of tougher material
than my face, so it suffered no injury. In other news, I managed to score a
mission’s team who has been assigned dinner prep at the community cookout on
Thursday. This is a good thing because I have been on this team not once,
twice, or even three times; but seven out of seven in my Youthworks career, so
I am very experienced at serving burgers and hot dogs. The other church seems
very nice, and is genuinely thrilled to be here, so I can’t wait to see where
this trip goes. –Andy Patterson
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