c|Life's student ministry is active in serving others in various locations near and far from home. In 2008, we took our first group to McAllen, Texas for our first high school mission trip. We served the community by painting a local church and having backyard Bible clubs in a nearby neighborhood. 2009's trip grew when we took a much larger group to Vado, New Mexico and worked in a community painting mobile homes and teaching children about the love of our Savior. 2010 is proving to be a great trip as well as we do work in several churches, a women's shelter, and a youth camp in the mornings. In the evenings we go to Robstown to gather kids at the nearby park and tell them stories from the Bible, play games, and love on them.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Zephyr & Kid's Clubs!

Monday morning we headed out to Zephyr Baptist Encampment to cut down trees, wash windows and cabanas, rake up leaves, and pull weeds! The students had great attitudes and worked hard for several hours before heading back for lunch!
A couple of boys kept us very entertained with their pretty singing while they worked. ;)
Ready to wash some windows!!

Around 5:30 we headed towards Diaz Park to start our Backyard Bible Clubs! We were so excited to meet some kiddos! When we arrived there were a lot of teenage boys there playing basketball and skateboarding. It was a great opportunity for the students to minister to some people their own age. I don't think they expected this, and they did a GREAT job making new friends and building relationships! Not counting the older kids, there were about 25 kinder-6th grade children on Monday night. There were probably 20 teenagers that stayed and hung out with us as well. Several moms also stayed and we were able to get to know them as well. It was a great first night!!
Teaching the story of Jonah in the whale using a water bottle, blue food coloring, baby oil, and a whale cracker :)
And like I said before, our kids did a great job getting to know the guys their age - which is often the most intimidating!
They students did such a great job at making connections, and in the group last night many of them talked about the impact that these little kids and teenagers are already making on their lives. We hope to be able to form relationships this week that will enable us to share our faith with them before we leave and hopefully see some make decisions that will change where they spend eternity. Be praying for this!
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  1. LaurenJuly 20, 2010 at 8:19 PM

    THanks for posting the pictures and commentary. I'm so glad to hear all is gong well. How awesome for Lauren to meet up with kids that she ministered to a few years ago.

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