Verge 2013
Jacob Well’s High School Trip
In June, a group of more than twenty JW high-school students and leaders headed to Colorado on their second annual VERGE trip. We asked our Youth Director, Adam Cooper, to share about the vision for the trip, some of the stories from this summer’s trip, and what else is going on with middle school and high school students this summer. Read on…
JW: What is Verge?
Adam: VERGE is a week-long trip to Colorado. We spend three days serving in inner-city Denver with an organization calledCenter for Student Missions (CSM). CSM hooks us up with various service opportunities throughout the city: preparing and serving food in homeless shelters, playing cards with senior citizens, boxing up donated goods at the World Vision headquarters, planting and weeding at an urban garden, or bringing breakfast to day laborers. Students are provided a look at both the pain and the hope of the city and are able to partner with the ways God is already at work.
After three days in Denver, we drive west three hours to Buena Vista where we spend another three days experiencing God’s creation through whitewater rafting, rock climbing, hiking and swimming in hot springs. We spend our nights around the campfire telling the ways we’ve seen God’s Story being told around us and through us. Adventures in God’s creation provides an opportunity to take a step back and observe our stories in context: that we are each a part of the narrative ourselves.
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