This coming Saturday, June 17th I’ll be leaving for Franklin, North Carolina with my youth group for a mission trip. The name of the organization with which we’re serving is called “World Changers.” I’m fairly excited about the trip, but a little apprehensive as well.
First of all I’ll be spending a little over a week away from my wife and son. That’s gonna be real hard for me. Secondly, I’ve never been on a mission trip. As with anything you’ve never done before, it’s a little nerve-wracking doing it for the first time.
Our mission will be to repair and rebuild roofs and other superficial structures on the homes of folks who are impoverished. Or to use a less PC term: they’re poor as dirt. It’ll be interesting, me up on a roof with a tool belt on, pants falling down as I bend over in the hot sun. Yeah, I expect to scar people for life on this trip not only with my plumber’s butt but with the whole public shower situation.
I wrote earlier this year about the atrocious shower room that the guys will have to use for the week. True. Scarring. Potential. I’m just gonna go ahead and set up psych consults for my students now.
At any rate, internet access will be intermittent at best while I’m on this trip so if I don’t regularly post between the 17th and the 24th don’t assume I died or anything. I’m just up in the Hills sweating my plumbers butt off.
