Hope Youth middle and high school students share their experiences from their summer mission trip to Detroit, Michigan, reflecting on service projects, memorable moments, and spiritual growth. Youth Director Jason Shinn discusses how the trip focused on transforming students from casual followers to true apprentices of Jesus, making incremental shifts that lead to lifelong change.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Meet Hope podcast, where we have
conversations about faith andhope.
Hope is one church made ofpeople living out their faith
through two expressions inperson and online.
We believe a hybrid faithexperience can lead to a growing
influence in our community andour world for the sake of others
.
Welcome to Hope.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Hello listeners, did you know that Hope Youth middle
school and high school studentsrecently returned from their
summer mission trip to Detroit,michigan?
We were excited to get to catchup with a few of them, as they
told us all about their trip,what projects they did, what
their favorite parts were andwhat they're taking with them.
We hope you enjoy this episodeas they share with us.
So tell us your name and gradeand a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
My name is Corinne.
I'm going into seventh gradeand last year was my first year
in youth group and I reallyliked it so far.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Awesome, so this has been your first full year, cause
you're going into seventh.
Yeah, so this was your firstmission trip.
Yeah, yeah, uh, how would you?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
describe your trip?
Um, it was very fun and alittle bit chaotic cause there
was a lot of stuff going on, butit was really great.
Yeah, a good um experience.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So you have an older sister who's already gone on
trips, right?
So I'm sure you have, you like,looked forward to getting to go
when you were younger.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, because I've seen, like my sister getting
like a lot of like having a lotof events, like having a lot of
fun.
So I really just wanted to.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Did it live up to what you thought it would?
Be?
Yeah, definitely Awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
So what projects did you work on on your trip?
So we helped in a garden calledDetroit Abloom and we helped
with just projects there andthen we went to a lot of
different homeless shelters andhelped mopping and making food
and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
What was your favorite part of one of the
projects that you worked on?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
one of the projects that you worked on.
I really liked going to one ofthe homeless shelters because
everybody was so nice there andthey let us have like some
snacks, and they were reallynice.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
So you got to interact with the people who
were there while you werehelping surf.
Yeah, that's awesome.
What would you say is your bestmemory from the trip?
What are you always going toremember?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I'm always going to remember all like the inside
jokes that me and my friendslike made up, and it was just
really fun.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, do you like getting to spend so much time
together with your friends?
What is one way that you wantto be different because you went
on this mission trip?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I want to start listening to like more Christian
music and like getting closerto God and like reading my Bible
.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Okay, if someone your age was thinking about going on
a trip, what would you tellthem to convince them to go?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Because it's a real opportunity to get closer to God
and your friends and help out.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Tell us your name and your grade and a little bit
about yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Okay, my name is Isabel Cavalieri.
I'm going into the eighth gradeand I'm part of Hope Youth.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Awesome.
So what number mission trip wasthis for you?
Number two Okay, how would youdescribe your trip to Detroit?
Like the way there, yeah, orthe whole trip?
How would you describe it?
Like, I'm sure when you camehome your parents were like how
was the trip?
Like what would you say?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
It was really fun.
It was a really fun experienceand I feel like it really put
things into perspective for us,because you see what a lot of
people don't have, and gettingto help them was really cool.
What projects did you work on?
Um, we were at Detroit a bloomwhich was a garden, and we did
like planting and weeding, wepainted a deck and a bench and,
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yeah, we just did like gardenjobs there what was the?
garden for um.
It was just to make likedetroit like more beautiful
place that people could come andlike spend their time at and
look at the plants and thegreenery and stuff that's really
cool were you there the wholeweek?
No, we went.
We also went to the other threedays.
We went to homeless sheltersand we were mopping the floors,
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we cleaned bathrooms, weorganized closed closets.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
What would you say is one of your best memories from
this year's trip?
What are you going to remember?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Definitely my small group because we had a lot of
good conversations.
I really liked my leaders andthe people in it.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
What is one way that you want to be different because
you went on this mission trip?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I feel like I want to be different by, like spreading
the word of god to others andserving and having a me last
attitude putting others first,that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Um, what would you say to someone who's your age,
who's thinking about going on atrip and they've never gone
before?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
um.
Definitely to go, because it'sa lot of fun and you really get
to grow closer to um the peopleyou spend your time with, like
your friends, your leaders andthe people you serve Just like
it's a really fun experience,that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
So those are all our regular questions.
Is there anything else aboutthe trip that you would want to
say or you would want people toknow?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah, I really liked.
So the one homeless shelterKotz was the name and we got to
meet some of like the littlekids there.
We got to play with them.
That was just really fun.
That's really fun.
Yeah, some of the little kidsthere.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We got to play with them.
That was just really fun.
That's really fun, awesome.
Well, thank you, isabel.
You're welcome, so tell us yourname and grade.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I am Mayor Dom.
I am in 10th grade.
I am the mayor of Hope Church.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Tell us more about how you became the mayor.
Mayor Dom.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
You could say I took it over.
When I walked in my firstmission trip I had I had my sash
uh-huh.
Ever since then I've customlyprinted on my mission trip
shirts to say mayor on them Ilove that you have embraced this
role as mayor.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Where did it come from, like?
What gave you the idea tobecome the mayor?
Do you remember?
I think it just like popped inmy yeah, yeah in sixth grade.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I think it just like popped in my yeah yeah In sixth
grade.
I think it just popped in myhead one day.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, and you just full on, took it on, as this is
going to be your role.
I like that kind of commitment.
So you just went on a missiontrip.
Where did you guys go?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Went to Detroit, michigan.
We did some service projectsaround this.
Middle schoolers went aroundthe city.
We went to a Dutton Farms yeah,Okay.
It's like a camp for disabledpeople and it was really fun
working there.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, what do you know?
What number mission trip thisis for you?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
This is my fourth mission trip.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Okay, so how would you describe the Detroit mission
trip If somebody I'm sure lotsof have your families asked you?
I'm sure other people haveasked you?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
How would you describe the detroit mission
trip?
This was my favorite missiontrip that I've gone on because I
felt like it was like the bestparts of all the other ones to
combine.
Like like all the boys sharingroom was fine, but like that was
fun because I got to seeeveryone.
The big community area was funbecause we got to talk, we got
to play like games in there.
The service projects were funto work on.
I really liked my group the godsquad that's.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
That's a group.
Yeah, so it sounds like all thecomponents of the trip were
your favorite, like they alllined up together, that you
liked being rooming together andhanging out together and
projects together and even thedrive wasn't bad, like I thought
that was really fun.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
What projects did you work on?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Yeah, at Dutton Farms we like a few groups there it
was us and one other group fromHope.
We did either.
That group would move stuff tothe animal pens.
We did a lot of weed whackingAt least I did.
We dug up these old flower bedsthere, a lot of weeding in
general, so a lot of smalloutdoor projects, and then at
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the end we cleaned out theirgarage.
And then we went to a thriftstore on the last day and we
cleaned out some stuff there.
We organized the shelves thereas well.
And on the very last day of thetrip we or last day of working
at least we went to another kindof disabled person camp and we
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did some other outdoor stuffaround there, like cleaning out
the flower beds, taking offbranches of the trees there.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Do you have a favorite part ofa project that you worked on?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
a part.
I don't know, I never weedwhacked before, so that was.
That was fun, like I've mowedlawns and stuff like I never
used a weed whacker um, so what?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
this might be a tough question, since you it was.
You said it was your favoritetrip, but what is the best
memory that you have of thisyear's trip?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
I really liked hanging out with my friends at
the water park.
That was they usually do.
One fun day in the trip.
We went to either.
We went to Whirlyball.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Which?
What is Whirlyball for peoplethat don't know?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
So go-karting and lacrosse and basketball in one
sport.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
But you said you liked hanging out at the water
park.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Yeah, I hung out with my friends there.
It was fun, and then I enjoyedwhen we got back from the work
projects.
We played bounce, which was fun.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
What is one way you want to be different?
Because you went on thismission trip.
What is one way you want to bedifferent?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
because you went on this mission trip I've been
trying to get into, becauseevery morning we did a devotion
from Jason's packet that he made.
I'm trying to do like a Bibleapp kind of just like log in in
the morning and like read that'sawesome.
Whatever?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
the today's verses, or something like that.
Why is that the thing that youchose, that you'd like to keep
doing?
I?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
don't know.
It was a fun thing to do in themorning, like when you're still
waking up and stuff and youjust like to read that from the
Bible.
I felt like that was, I don'tknow, a good way to wake up.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
What would you say to someone your age who's thinking
?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
about going on a mission trip.
I would say I did not want togo on my first mission trip and
I wanted to go on all the onesafter, especially this one.
And I'd say I missed out onmission trip because of COVID,
so I couldn't.
No one went on that one becausewe couldn't.
I'd say, do it when you stillcan Like especially my age, you
only have like two, you canstill go on.
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So I'd especially say, if youwant to try it, it's a week of
your summer, one week.
It's fun, at least I think itis.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
And you said you didn't want to go on your first
one, but now you've wanted to goon every single other one.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Yeah, every single one.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, what made it worth it?
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I don't know, just hanging out with the entire
youth group, just being outthere serving others, just, I
don't know, a week away, it'sfun.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Tell us your name and your grade, and a little bit
about yourself.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
I'm Abby Apello.
I'm a senior.
I just graduated from highschool.
What are you doing after highschool?
I'm going to college for earlychildhood education.
That's awesome For being apreschool teacher.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Very cool.
So how would you describe yourmission trip this year?
Speaker 6 (11:20):
It was really fun and it was a lot, but it was really
fun to get to be with a seniorgroup this year for my last
mission trip.
So were you with all seniors?
Yes, all seniors and one junior, but he was the only junior.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's really fun to get to be kind of the oldest
You've been there the longest toget that final hangout time
together.
What projects did you work on?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
So we worked at a place called dutton farm and
they help with like specialneeds people, mostly adult
special needs and for the firsttwo days we were there we worked
like in the grounds and likecarrying stuff and with the
animals they have.
And then the other day we wentto a smaller campus of theirs
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and a few of us actually got towork with the special needs
people there and that was reallyfun.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
So you got to work with the community you were
serving.
That's awesome.
What was your favorite part ofone of the projects you worked?
Speaker 6 (12:25):
on Probably getting to work with the special needs
people because we ran a game forthem and, like we read a book
to them, it was really nicegetting to like talk with them
also.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
That's awesome.
Had you ever done anything likethat before?
Speaker 6 (12:43):
I have not, not with older special needs people Like
I've worked with younger kids,but not as much.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
What has meant the most to you as a student in Hope
Youth Ministry.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Getting to make relationships with this other
students and with my leaders,because all of the leaders and
adults involved are sosupportive of everything like
that All of us do and they're sosupportive of us and how we,
how they want us to get to grow.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
That's awesome, and I hope that you know that, even
as you step out of being astudent, that those adults are
always going to want to supportyou and cheer you on so
including me.
So tell us your name.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Jason Shin.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Hi Jason.
So we thought that, just likewe asked a bunch of your
students about their trip, thatwe maybe should ask you, as
their fearless leader, of theirtrip, and we thought we'd maybe
just ask you the same questions.
Obviously, you're going toanswer them a little bit
different, but as the youthdirector.
But how would you describe theDetroit mission trip this year?
Speaker 7 (13:55):
I think it was good.
I wanted to go home, and so Itook 41 of my closest friends to
my stomping grounds, and so wewent with a different agency
this year and we had lots ofprojects.
The high schoolers were at oneproject all week, basically, and
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the middle schoolers much liketheir attention span, were at a
different project each day,which was good.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Perfect for them.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
So what projects did you work on?
Speaker 7 (14:26):
We did a urban garden in downtown Detroit.
We worked at the Detroit rescuemission for two days and then
we worked at a mission thatspecialized in families in
crisis, getting them back ontheir feet, called COTS, which
dealt with like familiesspecifically.
So they got a building thathoused up to 250 people and we
did a lot of work cleaning upafter a flood.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
So yeah, and the high school was at another project.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
The high schoolers were at a special needs farm
that works, that is, a farm thatemploys people with
developmental needs and employsthem and creates inclusion
events, and so they did a lot ofwork.
I think a lot of thesenonprofits were just happy to
have extra hands, because Idon't know if you know this
about nonprofits, but it'sreally it's like one or two
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people and a lot of this workjust just piles up, and so we
were able to come in and freethis stat, the staffs up of all
these different places, to servetheir communities in an even
more effective way.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
That's awesome.
I used to work for a nonprofitbefore I worked here and I know
the list of like someday we'llget to that, but we got to keep
it running.
We were that someday we'll getto that list.
Yeah, that's such a blessing.
Um, so what was a favorite part?
Speaker 7 (15:39):
of a project that you worked on, I think just being
with the students, like we had areally good group of middle
schoolers that just love to bearound each other and they I
really feel like we weren'tchasing them very often, like
they worked hard in hotenvironments and I wasn't
actually a part of this.
But I think a favorite memoryfor a lot of the kids is they
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worked in a kitchen at theDetroit Rescue Mission and they
made sandwiches.
I think they made a hundred,150 sandwiches in a very hot
kitchen and the kitchen staffwas basically in tears and just
being able to talk to thedirectors of the different
places we worked at and justhearing how thankful they were
for us was probably cool.
(16:22):
We got a nice email from one ofthe directors just sharing how
excited they were to have thatgroup from New Jersey, which
everyone was fascinated with.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
New Jersey, yeah, I love that and to have that group
from New Jersey, which everyonewas fascinated with New Jersey,
that's so cool.
Yeah, I love that.
I love that.
Then you've made connectionswith people all over just from
moments like that.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Yeah, exactly what about a really great memory from
this year's trip for you?
I, I would love to say I mean Iwasn't necessarily part of the
small groups, but I heard thesmall group conversations were
great, just seeing the groupcome together.
Like one of the things wetalked about before the trip was
wanting to see connections, andso we this the church that we
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stayed at had a ping pong tableand we played the hope
traditional game of calledbounce, which which involved up
to like 10 people running arounda ping pong table like crazy,
and I think You've never playedBounce.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It looks like chaos, but it's not.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
It is almost too detailed, I can't keep track of
it, but I think a favoritememory for me was we had a
couple of students that werereally unsure of coming and they
got sucked into this game ofbalance and they just were
playing it nonstop and they wereinvolved in the group and it
was great seeing our highschoolers take some middle
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schoolers under their wing, andso that was good.
And then, of course, Iintroduced these guys to a
Michigan sport called whirlyball.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We heard about it.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Did you and?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
one of the students.
I was like wait, you have tostop and tell us what whirly
ball is.
And they said it was uh,lacrosse and bumper cars Exactly
.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
Five on five lacrosse bumper cars, where they have
those little scoop things youbuy from a dollar store and
you're passing a wiffle balltogether trying to score on a
basketball hoop.
It's so stupid, it's amazingand you can't explain it.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Does it only exist in Detroit or in Michigan?
I've only ever seen it there.
I've never heard of it anywhereelse.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Yeah, it's, it's.
It's a place normally like theyhave like a little, like a
little restaurant attached to it.
They have they have a barattached to it and it can only
become from.
I think it's a.
It's a winter people, we can'tget out much, so we make up
indoor sports.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
That's awesome.
So we asked a bunch of thestudents what is one way they
want to be different after thistrip.
But I know we asked you beforethe trip.
We asked you during a Sundayservice what your hope was for
students going into the trip.
Now that you've done the trip,what would you say your hope is
for students as they go forwardin their lives after this trip?
Speaker 7 (18:57):
I think with any trip you want to see life change and
that's a hard thing to measure.
We spent a lot of time.
I read a really cool book whichI know Pastor Rick has done
small groups on it.
I read a really cool bookcalled Practicing the Way.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, just listen to the audio book of it.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Yeah, John Mark Comer , and so I based all of our
devotionals, I based all of ourevening sessions and small group
questions around this idea ofbeing not just a casual follower
of Jesus but an apprentice.
I love that.
So for a lot of our kids, whenyou ask them to be a follower,
it's a click of a button onInstagram.
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I'm a follower.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, that's a really good point.
Language makes a difference.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Yeah, and so we really spent a lot of time
talking about the differencebetween an apprentice and a
casual follower, and so I'd liketo see this year an emphasis on
not just Sunday night or Sundaymorning following Jesus, but
what does it look like to be anapprentice of Jesus every day of
our week?
How do we make that a priority?
And so that's something I'mreally thinking about as we gear
into the fall, and what doesthat look like?
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And I think one of the coolthings we did is we actually had
the small groups dream reallybig about how would they change
Hope Youth if we had anapprentice mindset, and so like
they talked about doing Biblestudies that may or may not
include gaga ball, but hey, youdo what you gotta do, you do
what you gotta do, but alsoservice projects, whether it be
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the food pantry or I.
have a personal connection withmy wife working at Urban Promise
, but they have service days.
Hope has an amazing traditionof mission trips, but what does
that look like?
We're really good about takinga whole week and disconnecting
from our phones, but what doesthat look like for us to do it,
maybe a little bit during theyear too?
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I think we had a gooddiscussion around that, and so
I'd like to carry it.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
So you were just talking just now.
I was thinking if a student islistening to this podcast which
I know they will be, because theones that I interviewed said,
hey, let me know when it comesout If a student is listening to
this podcast and they'rehearing you say being an
apprentice in your day-to-daylife and they're like where do I
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start and you probably talkedabout this on the mission trip
what do you think it looks likefor a teenager anyone middle
school or high school to makelike a one degree shift towards
being like an apprentice in your, in your everyday, go to school
, go sports, go to youth kind oflife.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
I think the book which I really thought was
amazing really talked about whatan apprentice means, especially
in the first century, how theapprentice lived and breathed.
They just were with theirteacher 24-7.
Now, obviously, obviously,we're not advocating for
students to drop out of highschool and just sit in my office
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and watch me do.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
But that's part of it .
Right, being with Jesus doesn'tmean being in this building
24-7.
Yes, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
And so what does it look like for us to have a
mindset of Jesus, to take thatmindset of Jesus with us as we
go to our sports, as we go toour job, as we jump into a
theater program, as we're in ourfamilies?
What does that look like?
And I think that's going to bea big emphasis.
So I would say, jump in with usat Hope.
We're going to hopefully startsome small groups.
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Some of the students are doingonline Bible studies just using
the Bible app.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
So there's plenty of space and we would love to start
grabbing more and more studentsto jump in with us as we kind
of consider I like what you saidthe one degree shift.
We're not asking you to becomea monk here.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, I saw that from a different book I read years
ago called Love Does by Bob Goff.
And he talks about in his book.
He talks about it can feel likeyou have that mountaintop
moment right, Like you go on amission trip and you have that
like devoted time all week long,no distractions, and you come
back like ready to like makethis big change in your life,
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but then like life is life andyou do it for a week.
You do it for a week and then itfalls off again, and it's like
it doesn't have to be thateverything stops in order for
the shift to happen, and so it'slike if that feels really
overwhelming.
I love the language of likewhat is a one degree shift in
your life?
So maybe it's you know theperson that you sit next to at
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lunch, who you never talked to,you introduce yourself, or you
know like, those little shiftsover time are what make a
difference in our life.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Yeah, and so reach out to me.
You can connect with me,obviously, in person, obviously.
Drop me an email or drop me anInstagram note or something like
that.
But let's get connected andjust consider, and it could be
adding a devote, like we dodevotions every morning on the
mission trip.
It could just be adding a fiveminute devotion in your morning,
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it could be, or whatever timeworks for you.
I am not a morning person,which the staff here at hope
have learned and adjusted to.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
No, I wasn't when I did youth ministry either.
I I am now, because I havesmall children that wake me up
at six six I am now because Ihave small children that wake me
up at 6, 530.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
But if I had, I'm a night owl at heart and I always
will be yeah, I don't even knowif I'm a night owl.
I'm a mid-afternoon kind of guy.
All right, I respect it.
My game is from 230 to three.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I am on top of it, I respect it, I love it yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
So that one degree shift is a great phrase, and so
the cool thing is, if I havestudents starting in sixth grade
and we're making one degreeshifts each year after a mission
trip or during the year, that'sgoing to make major life change
, which I think the goal is hereat Hope is we want to see life
change and life transformationfor a lifetime, not for this
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little sliver of time.
I mean, it's an importantsliver of time, but in the grand
scheme of things it's a sliverof time.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Is there anything else you'dwant to share with us?
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Uh, if you're interested in coming on a
mission trip, it is anexperience and you are invited
to come talk to me.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Awesome, great.
Well, thank you, jason, and uh,we wish you well as you prep
and head into the fall with HopeYouth Yep.
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
Hello listeners, did you know that Hope Youth middle
school and high school studentsrecently returned from their
summer mission trip to Detroit,michigan?
We were excited to get to catchup with a few of them, as they
told us all about their trip,what projects they did, what
their favorite parts were andwhat they're taking with them.
We hope you enjoy this episodeas they share with us.
So tell us your name and gradeand a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
My name is Corinne.
I'm going into seventh gradeand last year was my first year
in youth group and I reallyliked it so far.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Awesome, so this has been your first full year, cause
you're going into seventh.
Yeah, so this was your firstmission trip.
Yeah, yeah, uh, how would you?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
describe your trip?
Um, it was very fun and alittle bit chaotic cause there
was a lot of stuff going on, butit was really great.
Yeah, a good um experience.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So you have an older sister who's already gone on
trips, right?
So I'm sure you have, you like,looked forward to getting to go
when you were younger.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, because I've seen, like my sister getting
like a lot of like having a lotof events, like having a lot of
fun.
So I really just wanted to.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Did it live up to what you thought it would?
Be?
Yeah, definitely Awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
So what projects did you work on on your trip?
So we helped in a garden calledDetroit Abloom and we helped
with just projects there andthen we went to a lot of
different homeless shelters andhelped mopping and making food
and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
What was your favorite part of one of the
projects that you worked on?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
one of the projects that you worked on.
I really liked going to one ofthe homeless shelters because
everybody was so nice there andthey let us have like some
snacks, and they were reallynice.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
So you got to interact with the people who
were there while you werehelping surf.
Yeah, that's awesome.
What would you say is your bestmemory from the trip?
What are you always going toremember?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I'm always going to remember all like the inside
jokes that me and my friendslike made up, and it was just
really fun.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, do you like getting to spend so much time
together with your friends?
What is one way that you wantto be different because you went
on this mission trip?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I want to start listening to like more Christian
music and like getting closerto God and like reading my Bible
.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Okay, if someone your age was thinking about going on
a trip, what would you tellthem to convince them to go?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Because it's a real opportunity to get closer to God
and your friends and help out.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Tell us your name and your grade and a little bit
about yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Okay, my name is Isabel Cavalieri.
I'm going into the eighth gradeand I'm part of Hope Youth.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Awesome.
So what number mission trip wasthis for you?
Number two Okay, how would youdescribe your trip to Detroit?
Like the way there, yeah, orthe whole trip?
How would you describe it?
Like, I'm sure when you camehome your parents were like how
was the trip?
Like what would you say?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
It was really fun.
It was a really fun experienceand I feel like it really put
things into perspective for us,because you see what a lot of
people don't have, and gettingto help them was really cool.
What projects did you work on?
Um, we were at Detroit a bloomwhich was a garden, and we did
like planting and weeding, wepainted a deck and a bench and,
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yeah, we just did like gardenjobs there what was the?
garden for um.
It was just to make likedetroit like more beautiful
place that people could come andlike spend their time at and
look at the plants and thegreenery and stuff that's really
cool were you there the wholeweek?
No, we went.
We also went to the other threedays.
We went to homeless sheltersand we were mopping the floors,
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we cleaned bathrooms, weorganized closed closets.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
What would you say is one of your best memories from
this year's trip?
What are you going to remember?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Definitely my small group because we had a lot of
good conversations.
I really liked my leaders andthe people in it.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
What is one way that you want to be different because
you went on this mission trip?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I feel like I want to be different by, like spreading
the word of god to others andserving and having a me last
attitude putting others first,that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Um, what would you say to someone who's your age,
who's thinking about going on atrip and they've never gone
before?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
um.
Definitely to go, because it'sa lot of fun and you really get
to grow closer to um the peopleyou spend your time with, like
your friends, your leaders andthe people you serve Just like
it's a really fun experience,that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
So those are all our regular questions.
Is there anything else aboutthe trip that you would want to
say or you would want people toknow?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah, I really liked.
So the one homeless shelterKotz was the name and we got to
meet some of like the littlekids there.
We got to play with them.
That was just really fun.
That's really fun.
Yeah, some of the little kidsthere.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We got to play with them.
That was just really fun.
That's really fun, awesome.
Well, thank you, isabel.
You're welcome, so tell us yourname and grade.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I am Mayor Dom.
I am in 10th grade.
I am the mayor of Hope Church.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Tell us more about how you became the mayor.
Mayor Dom.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
You could say I took it over.
When I walked in my firstmission trip I had I had my sash
uh-huh.
Ever since then I've customlyprinted on my mission trip
shirts to say mayor on them Ilove that you have embraced this
role as mayor.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Where did it come from, like?
What gave you the idea tobecome the mayor?
Do you remember?
I think it just like popped inmy yeah, yeah in sixth grade.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I think it just like popped in my yeah yeah In sixth
grade.
I think it just popped in myhead one day.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, and you just full on, took it on, as this is
going to be your role.
I like that kind of commitment.
So you just went on a missiontrip.
Where did you guys go?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Went to Detroit, michigan.
We did some service projectsaround this.
Middle schoolers went aroundthe city.
We went to a Dutton Farms yeah,Okay.
It's like a camp for disabledpeople and it was really fun
working there.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, what do you know?
What number mission trip thisis for you?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
This is my fourth mission trip.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Okay, so how would you describe the Detroit mission
trip If somebody I'm sure lotsof have your families asked you?
I'm sure other people haveasked you?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
How would you describe the detroit mission
trip?
This was my favorite missiontrip that I've gone on because I
felt like it was like the bestparts of all the other ones to
combine.
Like like all the boys sharingroom was fine, but like that was
fun because I got to seeeveryone.
The big community area was funbecause we got to talk, we got
to play like games in there.
The service projects were funto work on.
I really liked my group the godsquad that's.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
That's a group.
Yeah, so it sounds like all thecomponents of the trip were
your favorite, like they alllined up together, that you
liked being rooming together andhanging out together and
projects together and even thedrive wasn't bad, like I thought
that was really fun.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
What projects did you work on?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Yeah, at Dutton Farms we like a few groups there it
was us and one other group fromHope.
We did either.
That group would move stuff tothe animal pens.
We did a lot of weed whackingAt least I did.
We dug up these old flower bedsthere, a lot of weeding in
general, so a lot of smalloutdoor projects, and then at
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the end we cleaned out theirgarage.
And then we went to a thriftstore on the last day and we
cleaned out some stuff there.
We organized the shelves thereas well.
And on the very last day of thetrip we or last day of working
at least we went to another kindof disabled person camp and we
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did some other outdoor stuffaround there, like cleaning out
the flower beds, taking offbranches of the trees there.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Do you have a favorite part ofa project that you worked on?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
a part.
I don't know, I never weedwhacked before, so that was.
That was fun, like I've mowedlawns and stuff like I never
used a weed whacker um, so what?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
this might be a tough question, since you it was.
You said it was your favoritetrip, but what is the best
memory that you have of thisyear's trip?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
I really liked hanging out with my friends at
the water park.
That was they usually do.
One fun day in the trip.
We went to either.
We went to Whirlyball.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Which?
What is Whirlyball for peoplethat don't know?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
So go-karting and lacrosse and basketball in one
sport.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
But you said you liked hanging out at the water
park.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Yeah, I hung out with my friends there.
It was fun, and then I enjoyedwhen we got back from the work
projects.
We played bounce, which was fun.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
What is one way you want to be different?
Because you went on thismission trip.
What is one way you want to bedifferent?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
because you went on this mission trip I've been
trying to get into, becauseevery morning we did a devotion
from Jason's packet that he made.
I'm trying to do like a Bibleapp kind of just like log in in
the morning and like read that'sawesome.
Whatever?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
the today's verses, or something like that.
Why is that the thing that youchose, that you'd like to keep
doing?
I?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
don't know.
It was a fun thing to do in themorning, like when you're still
waking up and stuff and youjust like to read that from the
Bible.
I felt like that was, I don'tknow, a good way to wake up.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
What would you say to someone your age who's thinking
?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
about going on a mission trip.
I would say I did not want togo on my first mission trip and
I wanted to go on all the onesafter, especially this one.
And I'd say I missed out onmission trip because of COVID,
so I couldn't.
No one went on that one becausewe couldn't.
I'd say, do it when you stillcan Like especially my age, you
only have like two, you canstill go on.
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So I'd especially say, if youwant to try it, it's a week of
your summer, one week.
It's fun, at least I think itis.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
And you said you didn't want to go on your first
one, but now you've wanted to goon every single other one.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Yeah, every single one.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, what made it worth it?
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I don't know, just hanging out with the entire
youth group, just being outthere serving others, just, I
don't know, a week away, it'sfun.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Tell us your name and your grade, and a little bit
about yourself.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
I'm Abby Apello.
I'm a senior.
I just graduated from highschool.
What are you doing after highschool?
I'm going to college for earlychildhood education.
That's awesome For being apreschool teacher.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Very cool.
So how would you describe yourmission trip this year?
Speaker 6 (11:20):
It was really fun and it was a lot, but it was really
fun to get to be with a seniorgroup this year for my last
mission trip.
So were you with all seniors?
Yes, all seniors and one junior, but he was the only junior.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's really fun to get to be kind of the oldest
You've been there the longest toget that final hangout time
together.
What projects did you work on?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
So we worked at a place called dutton farm and
they help with like specialneeds people, mostly adult
special needs and for the firsttwo days we were there we worked
like in the grounds and likecarrying stuff and with the
animals they have.
And then the other day we wentto a smaller campus of theirs
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and a few of us actually got towork with the special needs
people there and that was reallyfun.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
So you got to work with the community you were
serving.
That's awesome.
What was your favorite part ofone of the projects you worked?
Speaker 6 (12:25):
on Probably getting to work with the special needs
people because we ran a game forthem and, like we read a book
to them, it was really nicegetting to like talk with them
also.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
That's awesome.
Had you ever done anything likethat before?
Speaker 6 (12:43):
I have not, not with older special needs people Like
I've worked with younger kids,but not as much.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
What has meant the most to you as a student in Hope
Youth Ministry.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Getting to make relationships with this other
students and with my leaders,because all of the leaders and
adults involved are sosupportive of everything like
that All of us do and they're sosupportive of us and how we,
how they want us to get to grow.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
That's awesome, and I hope that you know that, even
as you step out of being astudent, that those adults are
always going to want to supportyou and cheer you on so
including me.
So tell us your name.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Jason Shin.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Hi Jason.
So we thought that, just likewe asked a bunch of your
students about their trip, thatwe maybe should ask you, as
their fearless leader, of theirtrip, and we thought we'd maybe
just ask you the same questions.
Obviously, you're going toanswer them a little bit
different, but as the youthdirector.
But how would you describe theDetroit mission trip this year?
Speaker 7 (13:55):
I think it was good.
I wanted to go home, and so Itook 41 of my closest friends to
my stomping grounds, and so wewent with a different agency
this year and we had lots ofprojects.
The high schoolers were at oneproject all week, basically, and
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the middle schoolers much liketheir attention span, were at a
different project each day,which was good.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Perfect for them.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
So what projects did you work on?
Speaker 7 (14:26):
We did a urban garden in downtown Detroit.
We worked at the Detroit rescuemission for two days and then
we worked at a mission thatspecialized in families in
crisis, getting them back ontheir feet, called COTS, which
dealt with like familiesspecifically.
So they got a building thathoused up to 250 people and we
did a lot of work cleaning upafter a flood.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
So yeah, and the high school was at another project.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
The high schoolers were at a special needs farm
that works, that is, a farm thatemploys people with
developmental needs and employsthem and creates inclusion
events, and so they did a lot ofwork.
I think a lot of thesenonprofits were just happy to
have extra hands, because Idon't know if you know this
about nonprofits, but it'sreally it's like one or two
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people and a lot of this workjust just piles up, and so we
were able to come in and freethis stat, the staffs up of all
these different places, to servetheir communities in an even
more effective way.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
That's awesome.
I used to work for a nonprofitbefore I worked here and I know
the list of like someday we'llget to that, but we got to keep
it running.
We were that someday we'll getto that list.
Yeah, that's such a blessing.
Um, so what was a favorite part?
Speaker 7 (15:39):
of a project that you worked on, I think just being
with the students, like we had areally good group of middle
schoolers that just love to bearound each other and they I
really feel like we weren'tchasing them very often, like
they worked hard in hotenvironments and I wasn't
actually a part of this.
But I think a favorite memoryfor a lot of the kids is they
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worked in a kitchen at theDetroit Rescue Mission and they
made sandwiches.
I think they made a hundred,150 sandwiches in a very hot
kitchen and the kitchen staffwas basically in tears and just
being able to talk to thedirectors of the different
places we worked at and justhearing how thankful they were
for us was probably cool.
(16:22):
We got a nice email from one ofthe directors just sharing how
excited they were to have thatgroup from New Jersey, which
everyone was fascinated with.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
New Jersey, yeah, I love that and to have that group
from New Jersey, which everyonewas fascinated with New Jersey,
that's so cool.
Yeah, I love that.
I love that.
Then you've made connectionswith people all over just from
moments like that.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Yeah, exactly what about a really great memory from
this year's trip for you?
I, I would love to say I mean Iwasn't necessarily part of the
small groups, but I heard thesmall group conversations were
great, just seeing the groupcome together.
Like one of the things wetalked about before the trip was
wanting to see connections, andso we this the church that we
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stayed at had a ping pong tableand we played the hope
traditional game of calledbounce, which which involved up
to like 10 people running arounda ping pong table like crazy,
and I think You've never playedBounce.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It looks like chaos, but it's not.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
It is almost too detailed, I can't keep track of
it, but I think a favoritememory for me was we had a
couple of students that werereally unsure of coming and they
got sucked into this game ofbalance and they just were
playing it nonstop and they wereinvolved in the group and it
was great seeing our highschoolers take some middle
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schoolers under their wing, andso that was good.
And then, of course, Iintroduced these guys to a
Michigan sport called whirlyball.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We heard about it.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Did you and?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
one of the students.
I was like wait, you have tostop and tell us what whirly
ball is.
And they said it was uh,lacrosse and bumper cars Exactly
.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
Five on five lacrosse bumper cars, where they have
those little scoop things youbuy from a dollar store and
you're passing a wiffle balltogether trying to score on a
basketball hoop.
It's so stupid, it's amazingand you can't explain it.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Does it only exist in Detroit or in Michigan?
I've only ever seen it there.
I've never heard of it anywhereelse.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Yeah, it's, it's.
It's a place normally like theyhave like a little, like a
little restaurant attached to it.
They have they have a barattached to it and it can only
become from.
I think it's a.
It's a winter people, we can'tget out much, so we make up
indoor sports.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
That's awesome.
So we asked a bunch of thestudents what is one way they
want to be different after thistrip.
But I know we asked you beforethe trip.
We asked you during a Sundayservice what your hope was for
students going into the trip.
Now that you've done the trip,what would you say your hope is
for students as they go forwardin their lives after this trip?
Speaker 7 (18:57):
I think with any trip you want to see life change and
that's a hard thing to measure.
We spent a lot of time.
I read a really cool book whichI know Pastor Rick has done
small groups on it.
I read a really cool bookcalled Practicing the Way.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, just listen to the audio book of it.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Yeah, John Mark Comer , and so I based all of our
devotionals, I based all of ourevening sessions and small group
questions around this idea ofbeing not just a casual follower
of Jesus but an apprentice.
I love that.
So for a lot of our kids, whenyou ask them to be a follower,
it's a click of a button onInstagram.
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I'm a follower.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, that's a really good point.
Language makes a difference.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Yeah, and so we really spent a lot of time
talking about the differencebetween an apprentice and a
casual follower, and so I'd liketo see this year an emphasis on
not just Sunday night or Sundaymorning following Jesus, but
what does it look like to be anapprentice of Jesus every day of
our week?
How do we make that a priority?
And so that's something I'mreally thinking about as we gear
into the fall, and what doesthat look like?
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And I think one of the coolthings we did is we actually had
the small groups dream reallybig about how would they change
Hope Youth if we had anapprentice mindset, and so like
they talked about doing Biblestudies that may or may not
include gaga ball, but hey, youdo what you gotta do, you do
what you gotta do, but alsoservice projects, whether it be
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the food pantry or I.
have a personal connection withmy wife working at Urban Promise
, but they have service days.
Hope has an amazing traditionof mission trips, but what does
that look like?
We're really good about takinga whole week and disconnecting
from our phones, but what doesthat look like for us to do it,
maybe a little bit during theyear too?
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I think we had a gooddiscussion around that, and so
I'd like to carry it.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
So you were just talking just now.
I was thinking if a student islistening to this podcast which
I know they will be, because theones that I interviewed said,
hey, let me know when it comesout If a student is listening to
this podcast and they'rehearing you say being an
apprentice in your day-to-daylife and they're like where do I
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start and you probably talkedabout this on the mission trip
what do you think it looks likefor a teenager anyone middle
school or high school to makelike a one degree shift towards
being like an apprentice in your, in your everyday, go to school
, go sports, go to youth kind oflife.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
I think the book which I really thought was
amazing really talked about whatan apprentice means, especially
in the first century, how theapprentice lived and breathed.
They just were with theirteacher 24-7.
Now, obviously, obviously,we're not advocating for
students to drop out of highschool and just sit in my office
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and watch me do.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
But that's part of it .
Right, being with Jesus doesn'tmean being in this building
24-7.
Yes, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
And so what does it look like for us to have a
mindset of Jesus, to take thatmindset of Jesus with us as we
go to our sports, as we go toour job, as we jump into a
theater program, as we're in ourfamilies?
What does that look like?
And I think that's going to bea big emphasis.
So I would say, jump in with usat Hope.
We're going to hopefully startsome small groups.
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Some of the students are doingonline Bible studies just using
the Bible app.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
So there's plenty of space and we would love to start
grabbing more and more studentsto jump in with us as we kind
of consider I like what you saidthe one degree shift.
We're not asking you to becomea monk here.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, I saw that from a different book I read years
ago called Love Does by Bob Goff.
And he talks about in his book.
He talks about it can feel likeyou have that mountaintop
moment right, Like you go on amission trip and you have that
like devoted time all week long,no distractions, and you come
back like ready to like makethis big change in your life,
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but then like life is life andyou do it for a week.
You do it for a week and then itfalls off again, and it's like
it doesn't have to be thateverything stops in order for
the shift to happen, and so it'slike if that feels really
overwhelming.
I love the language of likewhat is a one degree shift in
your life?
So maybe it's you know theperson that you sit next to at
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lunch, who you never talked to,you introduce yourself, or you
know like, those little shiftsover time are what make a
difference in our life.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Yeah, and so reach out to me.
You can connect with me,obviously, in person, obviously.
Drop me an email or drop me anInstagram note or something like
that.
But let's get connected andjust consider, and it could be
adding a devote, like we dodevotions every morning on the
mission trip.
It could just be adding a fiveminute devotion in your morning,
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it could be, or whatever timeworks for you.
I am not a morning person,which the staff here at hope
have learned and adjusted to.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
No, I wasn't when I did youth ministry either.
I I am now, because I havesmall children that wake me up
at six six I am now because Ihave small children that wake me
up at 6, 530.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
But if I had, I'm a night owl at heart and I always
will be yeah, I don't even knowif I'm a night owl.
I'm a mid-afternoon kind of guy.
All right, I respect it.
My game is from 230 to three.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I am on top of it, I respect it, I love it yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
So that one degree shift is a great phrase, and so
the cool thing is, if I havestudents starting in sixth grade
and we're making one degreeshifts each year after a mission
trip or during the year, that'sgoing to make major life change
, which I think the goal is hereat Hope is we want to see life
change and life transformationfor a lifetime, not for this
(24:49):
little sliver of time.
I mean, it's an importantsliver of time, but in the grand
scheme of things it's a sliverof time.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Is there anything else you'dwant to share with us?
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Uh, if you're interested in coming on a
mission trip, it is anexperience and you are invited
to come talk to me.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Awesome, great.
Well, thank you, jason, and uh,we wish you well as you prep
and head into the fall with HopeYouth Yep.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Thanks for being a part of the Hope Community as we
continue our conversationsabout faith and hope.
If you don't already, pleasejoin us for worship on Sundays
or on demand.
You can learn more atmeethopeorg or find us on
socials at meethopechurch.
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