This summer has definitely been a stage in my life that I am doing a lot of learning and growing. I never would have realized this, and I rarely thought about it, but the amount of work, time, and energy that goes into running a mission trip is mind blowing.
Team Pearlington has truly been tasting Southern culture during Prep Week. We have been prepping a home for inspection so that the first summer mission trip team is able to work on the house. It has been a ton of work!
Twins Arnet and Noel Le used to see their friend Trizznie Van every day in the neighborhood.
At the Christian Community Center in West Baltimore, a familiar chorus is heard every day across the playground area: "Mr. Tom! Mr. Tom!"
EM has started an increased effort to let local community leaders determine the specific projects they need and see what can be done to support those needs, even if they fall outside the scope of a traditional short-term mission trip.
03 July 2009
Our peaceful and well-planned Monday soon turned into a time to put into practice the many things our team has been learning.
03 July 2009
This is week 3, but we do not have any mission trip teams this time around, so the three of us summer staffers have become relaxers/interns at the Root Cellar, probably more in that order than the other way around.
03 July 2009
Week two is well under way, and I am in the Root Cellar writing this as the newest team walks by the window, completely covered in mud. I do not know why they are currently caked in mud, but they all look happy.
01 July 2009
Week one of our short term mission trips is in the books, and what a crazy week that it was. We on the Experience Mission team were blessed beyond words by the youth mission trip team that came this week from New York.
01 July 2009
The restoration project in Pearlington has become a national affair. With the four year anniversary of Katrina making land coming up in August, Pearlington is still in need of volunteer efforts to completely recover.
29 June 2009
This week in Toko’i, New Mexico, the mission team from Luke Airforce Base near Phoenix, Arizona is awesome! For every person on the team, this is the first short term mission trip they have ever been on!
19 June 2009
At the beginning of last week, we traveled to a community in West Virginia that had recently suffered a flood.
19 June 2009
While in West Virginia, Crystal, Robby, and I want to make sure that we are changing people’s lives through help and relationships, if we do this then a natural change will occur in us as well.
Added on 17 November 2008
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