Last week, CSF took over 200 students on various spring break trips. We took students skiing in Colorado, to hang out on the beach in Florida, to Owensboro and Joplin, Missouri to serve. And I helped lead the trip to New York City. We took around 60 students to the Big Apple to serve as well as enjoy the city.
Spring Break trips are always one of our best weeks to connect new students to the ministry. This was no different this year--of the 60 students on our trip, only around half were already connected to the ministry. One new student even wants to get baptized soon at Synergy! So it was a very exciting week.
We stayed at two different locations due to our unusually large group size--one group of about 20 in Manhattan and a group of about 40 in Brooklyn. We served in four different locations. We served with the New York City Relief bus, which is basically a mobile soup kitchen. We also served with Street Life Ministries, which is a homeless ministry that serves at certain parks. We also had large groups serve with an after school program and a daycare. Everyone certainly enjoyed being able to serve and it was a week of growth and sightseeing at the same time.
Below are some of the pictures I took on our trip. The first is from the "Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit". It is a piece of the temple during Jesus' time, the one Jesus enters and turns over the tables and runs out the money changers. So it was an amazing piece of history. The second is the oldest manuscripts we have of the Ten Commandments from Deuteronomy. The third is where we went to church at Hillsong New York City. The next is a picture of myself and 3 members from my Core Group in Times Square. Then a picture of the skyline. The last two are from St. Patrick's Cathedral--first from the outside then from the inside, a copy of the famous sculpture of Jesus and his Mother Mary.
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