Tomorrow, 27 of our high school students and seven of our SIMYs will depart at 8:00am for Chicago. There we will be serving with a ministry called CSM - Center for Student Missions. Our students will be broken up into three teams: Team Gino, Team Wrigley, and Team Sears (yes, I named the teams - how creative, eh?). Each team will follow a different schedule and will serve a variety of ministries, from working with kids at Casa Central, to cleaning up a ministry site that serves children the rest of the summer (WE CAN), to working at a year-round school, to working in nursing homes and serving at homeless shelters and food pantries. One night we will have a cookkout and worship concert with all of the rest of the students serving with CSM in the city (around 170, if memory serves me correctly). And I'm sure there will be some surprises thrown in. I am excited to see how this week turns out as we are serving with CSM for the first time (in the past we have served with YouthWorks). I sense that this will be a more challenging trip for a lot of us. Stay tuned to this same Bat-channel for updates throughout the week...
