NYC Mission Trip, Day 3

Sorry that this post wasn’t posted this morning!

We spent the bulk of our day on Saturday working at a community health fair put on by Christ Lutheran and a local health organization. Our people helped by assisting in set up, standing out on the street to invite people in, and offering children’s activities. Meanwhile, four of us went up into the gym to paint a couple of worn walls. We then helped clean up after the health fair, and then it was time for our evening activities.

Pastor Hollmann took us down to 5th Avenue, and we set the youth free to take in the sights and do a little shopping. This was also the youths’ first introduction to street food, as they got some for dinner. Pastor Hollmann and Pastor Jackson, meanwhile, went down to the Apple store so that our trip could purchase a new Ipad as a gift for the church and its educational ministries.

We all met up on the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and we took a brief tour of it before proceeding to “Top of the Rock.” We timed our entry onto the observation deck to give us a view of the sunset and the street lights turning on. A really great time.

It was time to head home, then, but that turned out to be an adventure. The train we wanted was not stopping at the station we entered, so we got onto a train that took us near to the Tram that crosses the East River to Roosevelt Island. Taking the tram wasn’t necessary for us to get home, but it was certainly a lot of fun, one of the group’s favorite activities.

Once on Roosevelt Island, we took a number of subways to make it back to Christ Church.

A big day of hard work and play that left us all tired and ready for a more restful day on Sunday.