We made it to Thursday! (And so did you!)
Our students had a great day yesterday working in a variety of projects around Chicago. In the morning, we sent a group out to work with Casa Infantil, a division of Casa Central that works with young children in a Head Start program on the west side. Half of our group got to hang out with fun and lively 2-5 year olds all morning! While we did that, members from both groups worked with the in-house social services group at Fourth Church -- Elam Davies Social Services Center. We helped with a variety of projects, from organizing hangers, to packing lunches, to alphabetizing filing cabinets, to sorting toiletries and clothes. We helped with whatever we could find that they needed!
(Caleb gets his carrot bagging on. More importantly, he gets his hair net action on! Quote from him, "I seriously look like a lunch lady.")
Our third group in the afternoon went to work with an organization called Working Bikes. This group takes bicycle donations year round and fixes them up to resell. With the profits they make from reselling, they then ship 500 bikes per month (6,000 bikes per year!) to foreign countries where people can use them for transportation.
(Our students helped to prep the bikes by removing the pedals and turning the handlebars parallel to the frame before stacking them in two rows to be ready for shipping.)
In the evening after we returned and had dinner at Fourth, the students from Group 4 small group led us in worship together. We've been using statistics about Chicago as part of our theme throughout the week, so this group took a survey of our own students to get some statistics about them. Turns out, we're more alike with eachother than we even realized, and also more like the people we are serving than we realize.
That's it for yesterday, onto today!
Peace,
High School Mission Week 1
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