Gracespring Student Missions

What students are saying about the trip...


Today—July 11th. We worked at Youth for Christ in Detroit. It started off with pulling weeds. I thought to myself “why do we have to pull weeds? We are on a mission trip, not a garden party.” However, as we started to get into it I realized that it was the little things that completed the bigger picture. Towards to the end of cleaning up and working Peter gave us a challenge: not to complain for the rest of the night. I had been complaining a lot for most of the time. When he gave us the challenge I started to enjoy doing the work.. (If enjoying work is even possible. ) Once I started to not complain and work as if I was working for God and not a man (Yeah! Memory verse right there! ) We had some really fun memories/events that happened including singing really loud while cleaning shrubs and me almost cutting off someone’s finger... (Sorry Matt Koenig!!!!) Now, as I’m reflecting on the day it really wasn’t as bad as it thought it was at the time. The first full day of the trip is off to a great start!!!  ~Lily Fell





July-11-2011
Today we went to Youth for Christ to help clean up their yards and a little bit inside the building. At first it was really hot. Everyone. Well mostly everyone (including me) was complaining about how we didn’t want to pull weeds and work. Then later in the day everyone eventually stopped complaining and was working. It started getting really fun after everyone helped and pitched in and actually knew why we were working. We weren’t working for man we were working for God!!!  All of us had a few good memories of our first day at the building and outside. Like when “someone” (Lily Fell) almost cut off Matt Koenig’s finger with clippers, clipping weeds(Pastor Pete's Sidenote: This story may be slightly exaggerated. Matt had a small cut on his finger that was taken care of with bandaids and duct tape(Matt's request)). Hahaha I love you Lily , we have become pretty good friends in like what a day or two? Anyways we had a lot of fun today and we get to do it again tomorrow.
~Charlette~





July-11-2011
Today we went to the Youth for Christ center to help out, but on the way there our car ran in to trouble. I was in Mrs. Kelly’s car along with Alex, Noah, Cheyenne, and Ryan. When we stopped at a red light, we all looked over and there was a guy looking right at me so I waved to be polite and I told everybody to wave too and next thing you know, he backed up 12 feet. An hour later when I was working in the field, a guy came up to Peter and handed him something, later I ask Peter what the guy handed him and Peter said the guy handed him a carrot and said “Give this to the rabbits. God bless.” So Peter set the carrot on the ground later to be cut in two by Bryce. Later Peter told us all what happened, I said it could have been an angel or God and we had a nice peaceful conversation until it was disturbed when Micah when he said it was a demon that had poisoned it. So that’s all for today.

MAX WICKLUND


I am very grateful to God for an amazing second day. Every missions trip I take with middle schoolers I am amazed at how hard they work and how much they are able to accomplish.

Thank you for all your prayers! I am seeing evidence of them in students attitudes and through circumstances that God has divinely ordained. This was clearly seen in the rain we got today, but I'll blog about that tomorrow.

To God be the glory,

- Peter