Go to photobucket.com/fumcarlingtonyouthmission
The password is “fumcarlington”
Select the album on the left titled “Jr High MT 2010”
Albums from the trip will be listed on the left and bear the name of their photographer.
Howdy!
The last full day of mission trip has passed and we accomplished so much.
We began bright and early at 7 am with a great breakfast of waffles, sausage, cereal, and fruit. Each morning we have had a devotional to send us forth to the worksites. You remember that I was bragging about the energy of our youth yesterday, well it seemed to have caught up with them this morning. Everyone seemed to be dragging So we read Galatians 6:1-11 which includes these words, “If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit. So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up.” These words encouraged us to stay on task and reminded us the importance of doing what is right, to use our gifts and bear the good fruit we learned about yesterday.
After our morning devotional, we went out to the worksites with our adults staying in the same site but our youth rotating. The rotation between sites allows our youth to experience different kinds of mission so that they will know there is more than one way to serve others.
The Brazos Valley Food Bank group again separated food into small packs for families to use for short term sustenance. I was told they went through many pallets and set a new FUMC Arlington record by separating an entire pallet in just over 11 minutes. This is impressive when you consider a single box for a single family contains 31 items.
The Momon group finished up their house today by finishing up painting the walls and painting all the trim. They also installed gutters on one side of the house. This side had significant water damage, and although they had replaced the rotted siding, they hopefully had cut the problem off at the source.
The P.E.T. Shop workers continued their work today by building parts, assembling carts, and packaging them. Throughout the week, youth have been impressive making parts that require precision. Many have been enthusiastic to learn new skills like “packaging science”, metal drilling, sawing, and even welding (very supervised of course).
Last today, the Roberson house faced a challenge. Unfortunately they were lead astray by a Home Depot salesman earlier in the week. The paint he suggested was not tinted and somewhat translucent. After 4 coats of paint, it still didn’t look right. So having gotten the paint fixed they still needed to put another coat on the entire house and paint all the trim. We had told the youth to work hard, and wherever we were at the end of the day we could be proud of our efforts. Well, they did work hard and through a small miracle (John Salter’s words) they got all the painting completed by day’s end. You should be proud of your youth!
After work we showered at SFA Middle School. Unfortunately we did not have time to make a scheduled stop at Texas A&M’s bookstore but we did spend an hour of fun at Grand Station playing video games, laser tag, and glow in the dark miniature golf. That was followed by a great meal of chicken strips, buffalo wings, salad, fries, and onion rings at Wings n’ More, a College Station staple.
Once we got back to the church we took some great group pictures:
Worship tonight used our theme verses of 2 Timothy 1:6-7, “For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.” We talked about how often we come back from trips like this on a spiritual high; a fire has been lit in us. But that flame can go out unless we tend to it and fan it. Youth were encouraged to find ways using a spirit of power, love, and self discipline.
And we ended the night by watching the 2nd half of Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring which is part of our summer series, A Tolkien Summer. The movie is coming to an end now and we will be heading to bed when it is over.
It has been a great fun trip, but we are happy to be going home tomorrow morning to share with you, the church and friends about our experiences. See you tomorrow.
Blessings and Good Night!
-Nick
***New Pictures Online***
Go to photobucket.com/fumcarlingtonyouthmission
The password is “fumcarlington”
Select the album on the left titled “Jr High MT 2010”
Albums from the trip will be listed on the left and bear the name of their photographer.
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