Day Two: Servant Stairs
Today we worked at Hawthorn Hill, a special homeless shelter for women with children. After an orientation and tour, we got to work cleaning and organizing the kitchen that is shared by eight families....
View ArticleKids, Cans & Zombies!
For our second day of work, we started at Children and Families Urban Ministries, which is housed in the historic Trinity United Methodist Church. This ministry provides meals, mentoring, safe space,...
View ArticleDay Four: Serving Lines, Bubbles and Blue Nail Polish
Today was our last day of work. We started by spending the morning at the Central Iowa Shelter and Services, a homeless shelter in a gorgeous new building in downtown Des Moines. The shelter does...
View ArticleTomorrow = CYF Mission Trip!
Tomorrow (July 28th), 13 youth and 6 adults will pile into two vans and begin the trek to Denver. We’ll be living and serving at the Tennyson Center – a facility for children and youth who, for a...
View ArticleColorado, Here We Are!!
So, Kansas is really long. Out of our eleven hours on the road, 8 or so were spent in Kansas…and at least another 2 were spent in the part of Colorado that looks JUST LIKE KANSAS. But now we’re here in...
View ArticleDay Two: Learning The Ropes
Today was our first day of work here at the Tennyson Center. Because life and work at Tennyson is governed by a strict system of rules, and because the children we are serving come from backgrounds...
View ArticleDay Three: God Is Here
Today was a roller coaster. Many of the children in our classes had very bad days. Yelling, screaming, running away kind of days. At the same time, many of the kids we worked with had very good days....
View ArticleDay Four: Back to Class, Out to Eat
Today was a short work day at Tennyson. Children get an early release each Wednesday and are treated to a barbecue lunch that is prepared by the volunteers. So, after joining our classrooms for a short...
View ArticleDay Five: Nearing The End
Today was a good day! It’s tough to tell whether many of our classes were different, better…or if we’ve been changed in ways that make it easier to see the good in these amazing children and their...
View ArticleDay Six: Mountaintops and Deepest Valleys
Our last day of work was filled with emotion: the joy of field trips and parties for children being discharged, the pain of children having a bad day, the fear of the unknown, the happiness of youth...
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