Mission Trip To California

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Connar Groen Junior Writing for everyone The Mission Trip to California. Have you ever wanted to go somewhere you have not been or wanted to go to the same place again? Well, that is why I went on a mission trip to California with the 1st Baptist Church. For about the last two years now I have been going to the 1st Baptist Church youth group every Wednesday night. We would always do fun activities during youth group and most importantly have a lesson about the Bible and God. As the year got closer to the summer of 2014 our youth group planned on going on a mission trip to Orange County, California. The church had the trip planned through the 21st of July to the 29TH of July. And at the beginning of July are group leader started getting everything planned out and what he did is …show more content…

Then are youth group made a list on what we needed to bring and also made a schedule of when everyone needed to be at the church. As the time got closer I could not wait to go because it would be my first time flying and I would get to see the ocean for the first time also. So on the last Wednesday before we would leave for the mission trip we went over everything and made sure that everyone knew what was going on and what activities we would be doing during the mission trip. We discussed what we would be doing for our fun day and where we would be staying.We then talked about what time everyone needed to be at the church in the morning that we would leave for the trip and what time we needed everyone's bags packed the night before. The next we morning the youth group members and the parents all arrived at the church, we packed our bags in the van, said a prayer and we

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