The OCD - Origin Cross-Cultural Disciple: July 2014

Wyoming Mission Trip 2014

God has blessed me with yet ANOTHER amazing experience to intern with the youth of Hillcrest Baptist Church. This week we embarked on a long journey to Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming. We took about 54 Jr. High/High school students and 18 adults on a Hour-and-a-half plane ride, and a hour-and-a-half road trip to Happy Jack Country Church, our home for the week.

Sunday we joined our family at Happy Jack for worship. Our youth choir sang and a 16 year old student preached. God was definitely there!

Ansley!

Good 'ol Spicy Uno! It was entertaining teaching them how to play...

Sunday night we all went to Trinity Baptist Church in Laramie for worship and another student who shared. These guys are amazing y’all.

Half of our group went to Cheyenne and the other to Laramie for day sports camps and VBS in the evenings.

Sports camp was probably my favorite part. We just walked to the park across the street from the church and played Frisbee, baseball, kickball, and Lava Monster with the kids. The park was absolutely beautiful with such PERFECT grass. I made a few grass angels…

I love action shots! Our team leader surprised us with Sonic. :)

The view of Trinity Baptist Church from the Park..

VBS was all student lead, and they did an incredible job!

Cheyenne also has an incredible outreach during their "frontier days." They pass out water bottle which are labeled with the gospel! We labeled somewhere around 14,000

My "twin"

Our last day we went to the mountains!

The interns just chillin!

The water tasted sooo good!

Michelle!

So, this mountain you see has a very interesting story... Me, Alex ( another college intern), and two high school students (Hannah and Sydnie), decided to climb up and slide down on an air mattress (which apparently this group has done before, so I'm thinking, "No big deal, right?")

Took us a while to get up there since the air is so light...

The view alone was worth it!

The weirdest thing: here we were trekking in the snow, and I am not even cold. In Texas, we don't get snow, we get ICE.

The top! There is about a 15 foot drop where Alex is standing..

The other side!

So all four of us get on top of this queen size air mattress... We shove off, go over the 15 ft drop, picking up speed rather quickly. About a another 50 feet, we start headed toward trees, Alex mentions not being able to steer it, so he yells, "Just get off!" I am in the middle, Sydnie rolls off the side, I roll off after her, Alex jumps off and then Hannah. We all go tumbling down the mountain.The most terrifying thing was seeing trees every time you roll, and not being able to stop yourself...

Over half way down, I figured it would be a good idea to tuck and roll the rest of the way down so I don't break anything. Immediately my sunglasses flew off, causing me to think I just hit my head. I finally came to a stop, to look around for the rest of the crew. Alex is running toward Hannah, who I think is dead. She just sits up in the snow, her left side paralyzed and starting to have an asthma attack. She, thankfully was okay, and turned out to have "only" sprain her wrist.
Sydnie landed about 5 feet from a tree with only a few scratches and bruises. Oh! And a wet phone. :)

Thankfully, I ended up with a few scratches, bruises, and sore muscles myself.