Life in a California Mission: The Journals of Jean François De La Pérouse gives an insight into the lives of Native Americans during the 18th century from a European perspective. This was a period referred as “Age of Discovery” since most people, cultures and societies, who dominated unexplored regions of the world, were now being discovered. In the same period, 1769 – 1833, several missions came up between San Diego and Sonoma that were each day’s journey estimated at 30 miles apart. Each mission had two priests to oversight and a group of soldiers provided protection for the mission. Life there consisted of long days of hard, repetitive work with only holiday celebrations providing the needed time off for the community in missions.…
I've lived in the Rio Grande Valley my whole life. Ever since I could remember, I had never been outside these valley roads. I had always dreamed about what a vacation would be like. I ustheir ed to have friends all the time tell me about their trips to San Antonio, Houston, and Florida , just to name a few. I came from a lower class family of five so a vacation was never an option for us.…
In my adolescent years, I went through a couple of struggles before I became a Catholic. I became a Catholic when I was baptized as a little baby but then bad situations occurred and I missed out on being the Catholic I wanted to become as a little girl because my parents stopped taking me to church. As I grew up, I have always felt I had a something missing and I knew it was God’s love. When I hit freshman year in high school I found myself going back to the Catholic church with my Catholic friends.…
MOVING FROM STATE TO STATE TO STATE (only 3 times but 4 different houses) (this is also partially my life story) I was born in Salt Lake City, UT. I had to stay in the hospital for about 2 weeks because I had minor bleeding in my brain & a small hole in my lung. We then lived in a duplex, and my dad was a youth pastor at Mountain Side Baptist Church in Sandy. Then I think when I was a little over 1 year old, my dad became the pastor of our church, so we got to live in a parsonage for free as part of my dad’s salary.…
Flying all the way to Denver Colorado will not be a long ride at all. Like 3 to 4 hours. When I get to Denver I will pick up my rental car and drive to Snowmass in on the Aspen mountains. I would want to stay there for three nights. This trip would cost me about $2000.…
My trip to cedar point When i went to cedar point it was the trip for the whole band what i saw there fun games, people, there bug problem, and awesome rides. we got to pick our groups to. i picked me, colin, cameron, and matt. we left in the summer to cedar point around 5:00 in the morning in a regular school bus i was hoping for a charter bus though so i could go to sleep easier.…
Background I was raised in Union, Mississippi by Larry and Sue Addy and was involved in First Baptist Church of Union. At the age of 17, our youth minister sked me about my relationship with Christ. I had to admit that I did not have one. He lead me to Jesus and I accepted Him as my Lord and Savior.…
This was the first full day on my missions trip to Detroit and let me say it has been already busy. Anyway, I don't usually post on Facebook; however, an encounter I had today totally broke my heart and I felt the need to share. I was helping take care of some kids today when I started talking with a little girl around the age of 7. We just did some small talk…
I remember when I was younger I used to study with Jehovah Witnesses. I stopped studying with them because of the behavior of their daughter. They put a lot of responsibility on me that they didn’t require for their daughter. When in my eyes she was always ill behaved. I realized my mom would not tolerate that type of behavior.…
Growing up, I was not a child who wanted to go out to play and get messy. Instead, I would much rather stay home reading, drawing, or watching movies. The older I got, the more and more I refused to go out which really bugged my parents. One day, my aunt asked me if I wanted to go on a little trip to San Diego during the summer and I thought “why not?”. I hadn't been outside of the house for a while, so the 2 hour car ride was a breath of fresh air.…
Summer of 2012, hot, sunny, and one of the longest trips of my life. My family decided that we wanted to go to California for a vacation. But of course sports had a conflict with it so we had to delay it a few days. My sister Hannah played MAYB basketball and her team was going to Nationals in Oklahoma.…
As a child around Six years old my life was inclined to Christian activities such as music/ helping others to the best of my ability’s as my parents allowed me to grow mentally at a fast rate because of their handicap(both parents were blind from birth) and I became a guide to them at the age of seven and by the age of 13 I was baptized and joined a church called gospel Baptist that guided structure to my Christianity and I can remember the first book of the Bible I started reading which was Revelations As time grew Further on in my life I became highly engrossed with the outside of church that seemed very interesting because i was always sheltered from all that could happen to a twenty year old who was so eager to learn everything that I could…
This past summer, summer 2016, I had the chance to go on my first mission trip. I am a firm believer of Christ, I just never had the motive to go into the missionary field until this year. When the second week of summer came around on Saturday, July 11, I jumped on a charter bus leaving out of First Baptist Church with their youth and choir groups in the small town of Blairsville, Georgia and rode all the way to Arlington, Texas with a few gas stops on the way. Prior to leaving, each of us were given a binder filled with guts of lessons that were broken down into days one through four, and we had about two weeks of training: spanish training, how to work with the kids, what our objective was with the kids, etc. We also split into three different…
This was my life; an insecure student who had almost no friends, and even if he did, they weren’t really the best friends. They were more like acquaintances than friends. My life was not what I wanted it to be. Throughout all of middle school, my life was an empty void with almost no meaning until I decided to fully lean on God and his everyday truths. Near the end of my eighth-grade year, something clicked.…
“Let the youth remember that here they are to build characters for eternity, and that God requires them to do their best. Let those older in experience watch over the younger ones; and when they see them tempted, take them aside, and pray with them and for them.” ― Ellen G. White, Messages to Young People It all started back in the year 2002.…