NYC Mission Trip Day 5

Monday was our fullest day so far. We began the day working with the children at Christ Lutheran’s childcare, teaching them about how Jesus loves children.  We were excited to see that the children remembered some of the details from Friday’s lesson and how they expressed a love of Jesus. During the school time, some of our group broke off to work on other projects around the church.

In the afternoon, we traveled to Manhattan for several activities. We first went to the 911 Memorial, where we found the name of Ronald Bucca, a son of Christ Lutheran and a firefighter. He ran to the World Trade Center and up many dozens of flights of stairs and made it to the impact floor. This was a very moving experience.

From the 911 Memorial, we went to True Light Lutheran Church, an LCMS congregation in Chinatown. Their pastor, Matthew Staneck, informed us about the history and ministry there, and we helped out by doing a little bit of organizing and cleaning. We then proceeded to Hop Lee restuarant, where we had our main meal of the day. After the meal, we let the young people loose in Chinatown to do some haggling over souvenirs, etc.

We then went out to see the Mets play in an exciting game that went into extra evenings!

A very full, long, but fulfilling day.