Youth Mission Trip 2009

Article by Kelly Marie Steinberg; Photos by Catherine Gibson and Kelly Marie Steinberg

On the Youth's mission trip, on June 14th to June 18th, 2009, to Rainbow City, Alabama, God used our spiritual gifts. God is definitely developing some spiritual leaders in our youth group. On Monday, we broke up into teams that painted parking lot lines, speed bumps, and picked up trash around the apartments. Each team was led by a youth. One of the youth also led the mulching project on Wednesday. Many students exhibited spiritual leadership on the trip.

Also, God gave some of our youth very special connections with some of the children. The kids would ask us, "Are you coming back tonight?" They loved being around their new "best friend" for the week. It was cool to see youth bonding with the kids.

We have some real servants in our youth group. Everyone helped pitch in when help was obviously needed but there were some who saw small things that needed to be done and did them. They weren't always in the middle of the action, playing with kids and stuff, but they helped in the background.

Some of our girls who have an extra amount of God given creativity, painted some amazing designs on the faces of the kids and the youth!

Overall, it was very cool to see how God drew us together as a youth group as He used each of our unique spiritual gifts.