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Local youth take on a Mission in Michigan |
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Diocese of Dodge City participants pose for a group photo while wearing "We Made It" t-shirts.
Josslyn Stremel, Troy Suttle, Father Ted Skalsky, Megan Kessen and Alex Clark prepare breakfast.
Mission participants paint the home of an elderly woman. Pictured are Megan Wilkerson, Kaileigh Waldman, Ashton Hubbell, Scott Kerns, and Janelle Scott, along with some neighborhood kids.
Nathan Michal and Melissa Temaat work hard scraping old paint off a house.
A student painting crew poses with the homeowners. This four-bedroom home was scraped and painted during the mission.
Dustin Littrell and Haley Tieben scrape paint.
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"We Made It" is the inscription on the t-shirts of 27 high school students from the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Dodge City who participated in a week-long mission to Benton Harbor, Michigan the last week of June. The students, along with five chaperones, painted homes for the elderly, worked at a senior center, and taught bible lessons to neighborhood kids. The group shared the week with four other churches — from Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan. In addition to the work projects, the group also spent three nights on the beaches of Lake Michigan, swimming and barbecuing. They also participated in a Pentecostal Church service. This is the third year the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe has conducted a summer mission trip for the high school. "Getting the students out of their comfort zone where they have to depend on others and even God can be a life changing experience for them," said Dave Geist, the group’s adult leader. Other adults who participated in the trip included Brenda Jensen, Sue Gier, Lois Hubbell, and Father Ted Skalsky.
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