Houston or bust!
by Jordan Palzer
The time has arrived. 32 of our high school youth and
adults will be heading to Houston, June 25-July 2, for the
2018 ELCA Youth Gathering. This trip has been a long time
coming...three years to be exact, and it’s hard to believe that
over these past three years, we have raised almost $30,000,
had many meetings, volunteered and now it’s time to head to
Houston.
There are no other words to say except THANK YOU. Our
youth would never be able to take this amazing life and faith
changing trip without the support from this congregation.
Often within the church we hear other youth groups struggling
to raise the funds to attend the Gathering and we have never
been in that position thanks to each and everyone of you.
While in Houston, our youth and adults will be serving the
city with community service work. They will be interacting as
we take over the Convention center at NRG Park. And of
course, they will be gathering with all 32,000 youth and adults
from all across the country under one roof at NRG Stadium
each night and again for closing worship on Sunday to listen
to speakers, bands and engage in
discussion.
I know we have been talking
about this for quite some time, and
I’m sure some of you are just as
excited as we are about this trip. I
have great news for you. You can
come along on the trip with us too...kind of. We will be posting