Service Learning Project During March of 2016, my church held its annual Easter Mission Trip to San Antonio. The intention of the Mission Trip was to bring the message of love and mercy to a community that is filled with bitterness, fighting, and poverty. On the first day of the trip, a large group of people from the church drove down to San Antonio. On the second day, the group facilitated an Easter-Egg-Hunt for Agora Ministries. Later that evening, the group toured Church Under the Bridge (referred to as CUB) and learned about the needs of the homeless people in San Antonio. On the third day, the group stayed at 360-Outreach Ministries for Sunday church service and drove home afterward. One of the most prominent global issues that we dealt
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The main character, Dave, grows up and lives with his father, but his father doesn’t serve as a leader in Dave’s home. Dave doesn’t have someone that he can look up to as a role model, so he ends up making poor decisions that end up changing the shape of his life. In the same way, many children in San Antonio live without their fathers to discipline them and lead them toward a bright future. Like Dave, these children make poor decisions that prevent them from exceling in …show more content…
It forces me to step outside of my own comfort-zone and put the needs of others ahead of my own. Going to San Antonio has motivated me to put forth more effort to tackle issues like poverty and hunger, but I don’t want to stop there. I want to continue learning about global issues and pursuing ways to overcome them. People in the world—not just other countries, but in our neighborhoods and communities around us—need help. These people aren’t just strangers; they’re our neighbors, cousins, brothers, and sisters. If we are able to provide help for them, why should we hold
The main character, Dave, grows up and lives with his father, but his father doesn’t serve as a leader in Dave’s home. Dave doesn’t have someone that he can look up to as a role model, so he ends up making poor decisions that end up changing the shape of his life. In the same way, many children in San Antonio live without their fathers to discipline them and lead them toward a bright future. Like Dave, these children make poor decisions that prevent them from exceling in …show more content…
It forces me to step outside of my own comfort-zone and put the needs of others ahead of my own. Going to San Antonio has motivated me to put forth more effort to tackle issues like poverty and hunger, but I don’t want to stop there. I want to continue learning about global issues and pursuing ways to overcome them. People in the world—not just other countries, but in our neighborhoods and communities around us—need help. These people aren’t just strangers; they’re our neighbors, cousins, brothers, and sisters. If we are able to provide help for them, why should we hold