Week 2, Day 2

We completed our first day of work!

Today we took the L up to Rogers Park to work with a group called A Just Harvest.  This is a group that has been serving the community in Rogers Park for 30 years, offering free dinner service 365 nights a year, regardless of weather or power outages or any other interruption.  They serve on average 170 people per night at their dinner service.  For those counting, that's over 60,000 people served per year!

After a brief intro about the organization from their volunteer coordinator, Mary, we got settled into our tables to make 200 sandwich bags to be handed out to the community and another 60+ snack bags.  

After completing our bags and eating our own lunches, we got back on the L to get back to Fourth.  The students had some free time to hang out together and relax before we got dinner ready and had small groups and worship for the evening.

Nathan was really into Jenga.  And no, the pile did not fall after he made this move!  Thanks to Andy for making it tumble right before it was my turn.  Totally clutch move.

Group 1 prepared worship for us this evening and led us in an awesome discussion about our service work here in the city and about the hunger issues that we worked directly with today in Rogers Park.

If today and tonight are any indication, we're going to have (and are already having) an amazing and life changing week together.  We're encouraging each other to break apart the typical definitions of what it means to serve others, and to really engage the people and places we might find ourselves in throughout the week.  

Please continue to pray for us as we get some rest and journey through another day together tomorrow!

Peace,

High School Mission Week 2