Syracuse, home of the orange and navy blue! Now there might not be a lot to sight see in Syracuse besides going to the carousel mall, which by the way will be the largest mall in the U.S. in a few years, but there are people there, people in great need! Destiny life center is the church we work with and Pastor Chris Cooper is the senior Pastor.
The Holy Hands Expedition starts with three full days of training your students in many different areas for outreaches including, human videos, evangelism training, apologetics, testimonies, children’s ministry, one on one street evangelism, and Garbonics (aka. Stomp). At night we will be having services where the Holy Hands Staff will be able to share their heart for the ministry of evangelism, Pastor Chris will share his heart for their community and we will be praying for us to be spiritually prepared for the outreaches!
The next few days will be filled with putting into practice what was learned in the training sessions. In the mornings teams be doing flyer distribution and unloading, packing and loading back up again all the groceries for the 650 families we will be feeding. Then in the afternoons the teams will get prepped and go out to use all that they have learned for outreaches. Students will get a chance to give their testimonies publicly and then one on one sharing their love for Jesus with people in the Syracuse area! Then our last outreach day will be doing the Kids Fun in the Sun Festival Outreach on Saturday with the church all day! It’s a great event and it has been going on in their community for the past several years so thousands of people will come through the park, it’s a crazy busy day, but it’s a great ministry experience.
The best part about this trip though will be taking all that the students have learned home, to where they have their own mission field. Our hope is that their life is changed on this trip, and then they use that experience to change other people’s lives in their own communities!
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Crystal Wade – Youth Leader
Joseph Meehan