Kodie-
Mission trips are always full of many different adventures.
From cleaning houses and helping people in a 104 weather on our first trip to
this one, helping the mentally ill and cleaning a house full of bugs. So my
group was sent to the Avalon hotel which basically is Single Room Apartments
which people can rent out and get taken care of and be off of the street. But this building wasn’t what you would
expect someone who isn’t happy to own and manage it, no it was a nice lady we
called the president who cares for all the people and makes sure their house is
good for them. Well one of our main jobs was helping her house, scrubbing down
the walls and floors to preparing meals for the men she cared for. She was very
grateful and expressed it very often. Its nice to see because sometimes you spend an entire week
working and no one knows of a single deed, to our lady who thanked us often and
a treated us almost on the daily. She referred to us as her angels from God. It
was a great experience volunteering with her and I am very glad I was sent to
this work site with Sara and my Brother.
Grant -
Our trip to Canada was fun and a great way to give back to
the community!!! I have learned how grateful I am just by going there. When we
got there we had gotten put in different groups my group had to go work at an
old apartment building that at one point was a hotel. It was really dirty,
smelly and filed with pesticides like roaches, mice and bed bugs. when we were
working in the hotel we had to mope 4 floors, scrub the walls of 4 floors, and
make food. It was a pretty crazy adventure!!!!!
Lexie-
So first things first, this week is not what I expected. I
was put into a group where I thought that I would be doing manual labor, but we
walked through the door to find kids. We were in a VBS. These kids are not like
the kids like the ones back home, these kids don’t like to listen much and run
everywhere. So after a day of chasing kids around and trying really hard not to
lose them, we start heading for the church/home. But as the week went on I
learned much from these kids. I learned that we must think about the other side
of the story, the part that is hidden. With each kid that begged for my
attention I saw that they needed it more than anyone. I am thankful for the
kids who were clinging to me over the week. I hope that their lives were
changed just as much as I am. It was really hard to leave them the next day
knowing I may never get to see them again and that I can’t see the difference
that I may have made on them. We sadly won’t be able to help them next week but
there will be more Youthworks kids and hopefully they can make a difference.
During our devotions the most important thing that I took
away is I am just like the people who are out on the street. We are all broken
I just have better resources to hide it from the people around me. Those people
can’t hide the brokenness that they have, they just let the whole world see,
where I hide it and act like I am completely strong and fine but I am not. But
no matter what I am desirable in the eyes of the Lord. He will always love me
for me. I just need to accept it and so do many other people.
I am thankful for the mission trip and all the children that
I helped, the things that I have learned about myself and about God
Jonah-
So this past week our youth group has been in Canada. We all
got split up in groups I was put in Sara’s group with Grant, Kodie, Amanda and
Hayley. We got to go and help out a hotel that was called the Avalon hotel. I
was a little nervous about going to the hotel because, it was said to be bed
bug central. We went to the hotel for the first part of the day for the week. I
think we helped a lot we cooked and cleaned 4 floors. In the afternoons we went
to this place called the living room. In the living room it was were homeless
people or mentally challenge people go to basically hang out. We helped the
living room by helping them cook every day. Organize some of their super dirty
rooms. On one of the days we got to go to the park and have a picnic with the
people from the living room. We socialized a little but mainly grant just went
swimming in the lake.
On our free time we got to explore the city mainly this
place called Gastown. We got to go into a lot of different shops mainly coffee
shops. We tried this place called waves coffee. They had great coffee but the
down fall about it was that they were super slow at making their coffee. We got
to do this scavenger hunt that was things in Gastown my group was not very good
at finding things but we met a lot of friendly locals that lead us in the right
way. We went to the beach one of the nights and just hung out with the youth works
people and other church’s. We got to do a lot of different things in the week
that were super fun but that’s basically what happened throughout my work I had
a great time and, hope to be able to tell you more about it.
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