3 Months to Pearlington

Three months to go until we go back to Pearlington. Are you excited yet? If you need some inspiration, then head over to Jane El's blog to read about her mission trip to Mexico. If busloads of high school kids can take time out to help, then you can find a week to go to Pearlington with us. You will start seeing the signup sheets and hearing us talk about it during Interests and Concerns at worship. You won't have an excuse that you didn't know about it or have enough warning to prepare. Let's get ready for Oct 7 - 13.

When I get a bit cynical about the way our country appears to be heading, I can read about good things that groups of people and young people are doing. I never heard of "gap years" when I was in college, so you could take off for a year and live off of your surroundings doing mission work etc. But, I read about it more often. It is actually a good trend for kids to give them a purpose and re-emphasize values. Check out what Jane is describing on her trip. I am heading off on a tangent very quickly about the state of our country and our privileged kids not understanding how hard they will need to work and...