Friday, March 11, 2011

Countdown to Kansas City!

In less than 48 hours we will be leaving for Kansas City, MO to serve at Operation Breakthrough!  We will be dealing with the issue of Inner City Youth.  There are many things that we as a group have learned about this issue but are excited to learn much more from living in the culture for a week.  Throughout all of our meetings that we have had in the last couple of months, we have learned about this issue through videos, activities and guest speakers.  While we were learning we were also bonding at the same time. :)

We have shared our hopes and fears throughout the year pertaining to our experiences to come.  Some of the hopes of our groups are: the possibility of helping and giving kids a safe place to learn, that our perceptions of our own life and the privileges we have had during our childhood will become apparent to us, we hope to inspire some of the children that we work with to seek the best within themselves, hope that in one short week we can make a difference in someones life, we hope that we will have an amazing time and that we will all come out of this with some great friends, and we hope that we can use this experience later in life to realize how bad people have it and the good things in life that we have but don't appreciate them.  Some of the fears that our group had were: the fear of not wanting to leave because we will want to do more for the kids that we will be working with and that we will get attached to those children, also the fear of getting sick on the trip and the possibility of getting lost. :)

We will be blogging throughout the week to give all of our readers a sneak peek at what we are up to.  Throughout the week we will be sharing about the organization we are serving with, taking note of inspiring individuals we have met, sharing what it's like to be on a service trip, and what about this experience has been the most impactful to us individually.  Check back in to get a sneak peek of what we will be doing all week!

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