Chicago Mission Trip: March 23 - March 28
THE GOAL: Combating hunger and homelessness, participants can expect to work with agencies that provide meals, shelter and help develop support networks. Transportation and accommodations are being finalized, but will strive to keep costs to a minimum.
THE TEAM: Eighteen people - aged 10 to 64 (65 as of tomorrow.... happy B-Day Karen!) Eight parents, eight kids (all but one related to the aforementioned parents), one friend, and one grandma (not related to any of the aforementioned).
THE LOCATION: Chicago's West Side. The neighborhood is marked by boarded-up brownstones, broken liquor bottles, and trash that makes us remark about the days before anti-littering campaigns and bottle deposits. How does all this trash affect a person's self worth?
THE ACCOMMODATIONS: First Church of the Brethren. Martin Luther King had an office here in 1965 trying to combat housing inequality. "White flight," we learn, was fueled by unscrupulous real estate agents buying homes from white residents and "turning them" at twice the price to black residents. Three congregations worship here - Menonite, contemporary christian, and hispanic. This type of diversity under God's spirit by selling at twice the price to over toas A that Arrived at Church of the Brethren via the Chicago Transit Blue Line Monday at 6 p.m. The neighborhood is gray and dirty with the dusty remnants of winter, but the people are full of life and loving spirit. Krista, the local DOOR coordinator (Discovery Opportunities, Outreach, Reflection)
throwing things away, including people.
North Carolina: June 21-29, 2013.
Trip partnered with Appalachian Service Project.
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