{"id":502,"date":"2009-08-05T05:51:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T10:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/05\/chattanooga-tn-mission-trip\/"},"modified":"2009-08-09T18:05:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T23:05:20","slug":"chattanooga-tn-mission-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2009\/chattanooga-tn-mission-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Chattanooga, TN mission trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ReiReiley’s middle school youth group is on a mission trip to Chattanooga and I’m along as an adult chaperone. It may be the best thing I’ve done in my life. We’ve spent hours pulling an invasive exotic (privett) from a beautiful Cherokee historical site run by a wise strong woman named Ms. Cleta, we’ve set up assembly lines to organize food at the massive Chattanooga food bank, and the kids are throwing themselves into it and working really hard. And having lots of crazy fun too, inevitable when you put 60 kids into one big church for a week of sleepovers. I should be unplugged so I’ll stop there for now – I just had to share a little bit.<\/p>\n

Back now. Wow, what a great week of high-energy service from some wonderful kids. We finished up by working on the Girls, Inc. property and visiting the Life Center rehabilitation facility. Girls, Inc. is a home for young girls that gives them the skills and confidence they need to dream big and plan for college. We attacked the weeds that were choking out the back yard – more privett! – and helped them move supplies from one location to another. At the Life Center, we mingled with the folks, most of whom were older and severely challenged in one way or another. On the second day, we loaded a few folks on their bus and took a trip to a senior center to play ping-pong. The kids rose to every occasion and really shared God’s love with the whole of Chattanooga. Well done kids!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reiley’s middle school youth group is on a mission trip to Chattanooga and I’m along as an adult chaperone. It may be the best thing I’ve done in my life. We’ve spent hours pulling an invasive exotic (privett) from a beautiful Cherokee historical site run by a wise strong woman named Ms. Cleta, we’ve set … Continue reading Chattanooga, TN mission trip<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,6,17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-gaming","category-global-issues","category-words-of-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-86","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":319,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/holy-cat-and-rat-its-finnigan-and-hermes\/","url_meta":{"origin":502,"position":0},"title":"Holy Cat and Rat, it’s Finnigan and Hermes!","author":"m","date":"November 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I can't keep up. 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