Smiley Sunday---Mission Trip Plans

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My younger son who is 14 (soon to be 15) years old, spent most of yesterday at a workshop where he learned how to put up drywall. He did that because a week from today, he will be traveling to a place called Pass Christian, Mississippi.

Pass Christian, Mississippi is marked with a pink balloon with the letter "A" on it on the map below. The location of our home in Ohio is marked with a red star.

He is going to Mississippi with his youth group from church on a mission trip there. They are going to an area that was hit by hurricane Katrina in 2005 where homes are still, after all this time, in need of repair from damage done by that storm. He and the others he is going with will be spending an entire week, their spring break time off from school, to volunteer their services to those in need there as part of the hurricane relief team.

He is wearing the team T-shirt that was provided to him and the others in his group. This morning in church, our minister said a prayer for their group and commissioned them for the trip. He told the group and our congregation how proud he was of them for being willing to give up their spring break to do this work.

IMPACT
Who will go for us?
"Here I am, Send me!"
Isaiah 6:8
Mississippi Hurricane Relief

I have to say, I am proud of him and the others in the youth team joining this group too. He has definitely given me a reason to smile today.

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