Palmer Home Trip  

Posted by susieq

As many of you know, this last week we went on a mission trip with North Shore Fellowship (our church) to an orphanage called Palmer Home in Columbus, Mississippi. It was soooo GREAT!!!!!! We drove down in a huge bus last Sunday afternoon. We saw a movie all together in Columbus before going on campus and unpacking. We had a worship time together and went to bed. This is what our schedule looked like Monday thru Thursday: wake up at 6:30, have a quiet time from 7 to 8, eat breakfast at 8, work from 9 to 11:30, clean up for lunch, eat lunch at 12, go back to work at 1, work and work and work again until 4:30, clean up for dinner, eat at 5:30, then FREE TIME with the kids from 6:30 to 8:30, after which we did a worship time and small groups and then we went to bed at any time between 11:30 and 12:30 to get up and do it again in 6-7 hours the next morning. On Monday and Tuesday night we played at the pool on campus with the kids. Wednesday, we took the kids to a skating rink, and Thursday we went to the pool at the Ranch (additional housing for the kids built in 2005). All day Friday we went to Lake Tiak-O'Khata (pronounced tee-a-cata) and had a picnic lunch. We returned to campus Friday night, ate dinner, packed up the bus, and left. :( We had a 4 hour bus ride and, at 11:30 p.m., the trip officially ended at our youth building. If you have any specific questions about the trip, feel free to ask. :)

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5 comments

I'll try to post pictures soon. They aren't downloaded yet.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 2:27:00 PM

Was the food good?

Were the rooms nice?

Did you drink plenty of liquids?

Did you eat junk food?

Did you ever fall on your face?

Saturday, July 11, 2009 2:59:00 PM

*ahem*, correct me if i'm wrong, but i do believe that you were there, sarah. However, for others benefit, i shall answer. the food was frozen, so it was only so-so. the rooms were nice, however, the beds squeaked. Yes, we drank TONS of water, because the average temp. while we were there was 98 degrees with 80% humidity. there wasn't much junk food available, so we didn't really eat much. and no, i personally didn't fall on my face.

Sunday, July 12, 2009 5:50:00 AM

something that i forgot to add-even though we were ready for bed @ 11:30-12:30, we weren't EVER asleep before 1. we're majorly sleep-deprived. :)

Monday, July 13, 2009 8:16:00 AM

Hehe... Sarah the interrogator. I'll ask some too.

What was your favorite part and why?

Did you see anyone else fall on their face?

Did you pet a zebra? (or at least want to?)

Did you pick blackberries?

Did anyone there speak a fun language?

Specifically what food did you get? Frozen is not detailed enough!

Most importantly... WHY HAVEN'T YOU POSTED PICTURES?

:)

Love you!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 3:46:00 AM

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