...Mission San Luis Rey was built on June 13, 1798. It was nicknamed “King of the Missions”. San Luis Rey is the18th mission in the mission chain. It was named after St. Luis the 9th, King of France. San Luis Rey is located in Oceanside, California. It was founded by Father Lasuen. San Luis Rey’s church was very interesting to learn about. The church is the tallest building in the mission. The windows are high to prevent thieves and to make the walls stronger. The church was very important to them because it was a place to pray and to have mass. Mission San Luis Rey has a magnificent bell tower. They bells would be rung to signal morning and night and to announce daily events such as lunch and dinner. They would also be rung for celebrations, warnings, and in times of mourning. There were once was 8 bells in the bell tower but now there are only 4 bells. Kitchens at this mission were not convenient like the ones we have in our homes today. They used the kitchen for cooking and preparing the meals. The indoor kitchen was a smoky room with holes in the top of the roof so the smoke could go out. The Indians at the mission ate atole. They served tortillas at almost every meal. I wish I could have seen the worker’s quarters. Fortunately, I learned that unmarried women and girls 8 years or older lived in a dormitory which was called a momjero. Men lived in similar buildings. The men slept on mats on the floor or on benches. Married workers lived with their...
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...Cultural Knowledge I want to prepare a group for a medical mission trip to Honduras. I have had the opportunity to personally visit this country on a mission in the past and learned much about the culture here. This country is located in Central America. There are some cultural practices and information one should be aware of before going. The primary language spoken here is Spanish. There are at least nine different ethnic groups that live in the country. It is considered a very poor country and access to healthcare is very limited especially for people not residing in the city. Healthcare is paid for by the individual or the family. If one cannot afford care they do not go to the doctor. Families often treat illness using home remedies and herbs that grow in the area. It is not uncommon for people to be illiterate, so special care should be taken when educating patients. The primary means of making a living for most of the country is farming. Everybody in the family participates and does their share of work. Catholicism is prominent here but there are other religions as well. “A firm handshake is the basic greeting, and people shake hands again when they part.” (Read more: http://www.everyculture.com/Ge-It/Honduras.html#ixzz3IAf2p1vq (Links to an external site.))....
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...A lot of people take things for granted like food and shelter. They do not realize how many people in the United States actually live in poverty. A lot of people just assume that the poverty takes place in locations like Africa and India. When you get to see poverty first hand it really breaks your heart. We can do something about it though. We can change the way people live by volunteering our time to help out the community, and the feeling you get in return for putting a smile on someone’s face creates an extraordinary feeling that can be received no other way. I received this feeling when I got to participate in the mission trip to Chicago where I witnessed children living in such poverty but still showing up everyday with a smile on their face. Our trip began with a long and tiresome drive up to Chicago. It seemed never ending until we finally saw the massive sign that marked the entrance of our destination. Wheaton College. We were spending the night at Wheaton along with other churches from around the United States. The Boys and Girls Club of Elgin...
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...Out of all of my memories throughout my life, I think my mission trip to Guatemala would be the most memorable. It has to be the most memorable because I experience a lot of new things while being in a different country. Since I have barely ever been out of the state of Indiana, let alone the country until the past summer. Never had I ever been on a plane, never been through an airport, and never did I expect to get sick because I went too long without food. Of course since it was my first plane ride I was terrified, I held my mother’s hand while I said a little prayer. My mom was the only one out of her, my dad, and me that had ever been on a plane. She laughed because my dad was more worried than I was. My dad got the window seat, while I had the aisle seat....
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...thought I knew where I wanted to go in life and who I was. I did not think mission trips would be a path I would have chosen. However, I realized I loved missions on my first trip to Peru. I went to a girls’ home, where I did work projects for the girls, which included painting their laundry room and redoing their playground. What I loved most of all was spending time with the girls and playing games with them. This exposure filled my heart and became my passion. Through this, I understand that missions are the path that God is moving me towards. He showed me that you do not need the same language to interact with everyone. It takes body language and acceptance. On my second mission trip, I went to an orphanage for special needs children called The Gabriel House. At the Gabriel House, I made a connection with a young boy named Edwardo. I believe that I made that connection with Edwardo because my dad takes care of special needs students, so I have been around them for as long as I can remember. We would play games together, but what I mostly enjoyed was when I held him in my arms. On this mission trip, I realized that special needs people are just like us. They are God’s special people, and we need to care for them and love them....
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...This summer, I had the opportunity to go on a mission trip to Louisville, Kentucky with my church. There were nine high school kids that ventured, along with two chaperones, and our church’s youth pastor. We left on a Friday and drove two vans down to Saint Louis, Missouri, where we stayed in a hotel right across the road from Six Flags. *On Saturday morning, we took a shuttle over to the amusement park and rode as many roller coasters and water rides as our bodies could handle. To end the day, we cooled off in the water park and stuffed ourselves full of pasta at an Italian restaurant downtown. As I lay in bed that first night, I had no idea what was in store for me during the next six days. Sunday morning we all attended church and continued to drive the remaining five hours to Louisville. Upon arriving, we found out that there were three church groups on this mission trip. At first, everyone was shy and clung to who they knew, but this didn’t last long. On day one, we received our small groups, which included a mix of high schoolers from all three...
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...provides welfare is just one example of how even the less fortunate Americans are privileged. The United States was founded on freedom which is the greatest privilege of all. Many countries aren't as privileged as America as I found out when I went on a mission trip to Honduras. Honduras is considered a third world country which means that they are poverty stricken. The mission trip lasted for about three months and during that time I learned that not everybody has it as good as America. The first thing I noticed beside the scorching sun and humid air when I...
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...DRA. This will be my first time participating in a mission trip in all my MCC carrier. I am taking this opportunity to tell you about my service to my parish and my school. I have worked many volunteer jobs at my local middle school, Our Lady of Lourdes, and I have the position of being given a responsibility as a young adult has changed mine completely. OLL is like my second home and I have grown very fond of the old and new teachers at the school. They trust me with helping their students and making sure that the teachers understand the problems of students because sometimes I am asked to help with the conflicts at the school since I have also gained the trust of the students. Volunteering my time has taught me leadership skills and interactive skills with adults. Not only at OLL do I speak highly of the school but at MCC I have learned that if I see someone new to the campus that it is my job as a student to talk highly of both schools and the Catholic education system....
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...Imagine being subjected to the solitude of the mountains, going a week without a proper toilet, clean water, or even cell service. Walking miles upon miles, in seemingly hellish temperature just to do something for someone else. Welcome to my journey last February. Roughly a year ago, I endured a week-long Mission Trip in Guatemala. First reading that thoughts probably came up along the lines of "oh that's neat, but what's so fun about that?" For one second, stop thinking about whatever you're thinking and picture this. A hot, quiet day with the sun beating down on your skin. You're sitting under a luscious green tree trying to find as much shade possible while you watch everything go on around you. Children, barely clothed and barefoot laughing...
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...Sharne September 26, 2015 Youth Ambassador Mission Trip I would like to participate in this year’s mission journey because I have always been interested and participated in some form of community service, whether it is with my school, the church, or a non-profit organization. I truly believe that helping others and giving back to the community is what truly makes a person “good”. Being on the trip will enable me to display the Christian qualities such as helping and interacting with others from different cultures. It would be an amazing feeling to meet other Christians from around the world and learn how they worship as a Christian. To take part in the mission trip would also allow me to help my church and my community. I will be able to help my church by sharing what I have acquired on the trip and use that information to improve it’s ministries. It can be the ministries I am already active in or other ministries that can get insight on what I did to make those improvements. I think the most important thing I can share with the congregation would be the strong Christian qualities that I gain from this trip. I can help my community by just sharing God’s love with not only the youth in my community, but everyone in general. I can also help improve my community by affiliating with non-profit organizations to utilize what I have learned on the trip and the skills that I possess...
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...“...a stranger and you welcomed me..” During my spring break, I went on Appalachia Mission Trip, to East Bank, West Virginia. On the car ride there, I was just thinking. What am I do here? Why did I sign Up? Who was I going to meet? Etc. That all went away, when I had Chick-Fil-A for lunch and everything was all good. Passing through Appalachian Mountains and seeing how small the town was. That scared me a little, because I thought that this is where we are going to work. The roads aren’t big enough to do two lane traffic. So, we get there in the warm Virginia spring. Mountains all around us and in every direction. The pastor, welcomed us with open arms and invited us in where we are going to be staying for the week. The next day,...
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...On this trip God has revealed to me a lot about myself and what I am capable of doing if I let him have control instead of relying only on myself. This mission trip really helped me to give control to God for example I always get nervous when it comes to speaking about personal maters or praying in front of people who I don’t know but after a couple days in Guatemala I told myself that I would give all my worries and insecurities to God. It was after I did this that I realized that only relying on my own strength was preventing me from serving others to my full potential. Proverbs 3:5 says “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding”. I also learned a lot from the people at the orphanage in Guatemala just...
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...stepped around piles of trash and kept close to the group, ignoring the catcalls and tugging our suitcases away from the men who were trying to ‘help’ us. I felt eyes on me constantly. Crowds of people were gathered behind the outside gates as if they had been waiting hours for white people to step off that plane. This was my welcome into Port-au Prince, Haiti. My sister, Miranda, had been all over the blue planet. As soon as she walked out of the MOC-Floyd Valley High School doors, she was on a plane to Taipei, Taiwan. Then off to Beijing, Cambodia, and India. She journeyed all around the world before coming back home to find herself—and a husband. Since then her heart was aching to get out and travel, and joining my youth group on a mission trip to Haiti was just what she needed. I was...
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...Normally, I love walking around airports gleefully going from airplane to airplane. Normally, I’m not in a hectic third world country and I don’t have dozens of spiders crawling all over me. The entire time in the Central American country, Nicaragua had felt like a rollercoaster. This moment was definitely one of the scary parts. I woke up thinking it was going to be a relatively calm day. That view changed as soon a multitude of baby spiders crawled out of my suitcase and onto me in a Nicaraguan airport. It was June 19th at an hour that technically is morning, but one when no one should be awake. Everyone was eager to get back home after the 9 day mission trip we were on. Sitting on the ground, clumped together like a clique in high school,...
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...“Mars is there, waiting to be reached.” This quote, said by Buzz Aldrin, shows that he is all for the mission to Mars, however it is dangerous to all mankind. I believe a trip to Mars is physically dangerous and societally terrifying, therefore the manned mission to Mars is bad idea. Unmistakably, the idea of sending people to Mars is physically dangerous for them. First, the mission would take a turn for the worst when it comes to keeping the astronauts alive. For example, the temperature is too cold to sustain human life on Mars, being nearly -61 degrees Fahrenheit. Since it is so cold and our bodies have not adapted to the Mars environment, it would be very difficult to survive. Second, being away from Earth’s gravity would physically hurt the astronaut. For instance, your bones and muscles get weaker and your body produces less blood. Since we are not made to be in zero gravity for...
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