Today, several of our High School ministry staff headed out for Clarksdale, Mississippi for our High School Mission Trip. On Sunday they will be joined by 12 vans full of High School students and adults who will spend the week working on homes throughout the Clarksdale area.
Projects for these types of trips include things like adding wheelchair ramps for the elderly, replacing rotten ceilings or floors, or adding a fresh coat of paint to the interior or exterior of a house. Supplies for these projects are paid for by the students and of course the work is offered by them for free.
Our group will be in Clarksdale through the following Saturday so I want to encourage you to remember them in your prayers over the following week. Please pray for their safe travel, safety on their work site [power tools will be present], and that their work will bear much fruit in the Clarksdale community. All of these are important to keep in our prayers, but I also want you to add this to your prayers.
Pray that God’s spirit of grace will move in the hearts of our teenagers. In the six years I worked with High School students, nothing was as transformative as this experience. No sermon, small group discussion, group game or any other activity was more life-changing than this week.
So I want to encourage you to lift up these students in the coming days, praying that God would again reveal in their heart and lives the grace and love God has for every one of them.
Trust me, it’s a message they need to hear.
