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Taking their own food and cooking utensils, resource materials, snacks for children's meetings and US money and travellers cheques, they set off on February 23.
In Fresno, they worked cleaning and repainting the kitchen at World Impact, a US-based inner city ministry. They went door-to-door to invite kids to children's meetings. Forty to 50 hyperactive kids came each day. The group also led Bible studies, helped feed the homeless and held a teens night. In spite of cautions from the staff at World Impact about the possible scenarios with touchy teens, nothing unusual occurred.
On the way home the van broke down. It was towed and fixed, but then overheated repeatedly. In frustration, they cried and prayed. Motorists stopped and offered sympathy or advice. "That happened to me once and I put an egg in the radiator and it was fine," said one person.
At the next town, they were not able to buy a single egg, but were given one by a restaurant manager. They poured the egg into the radiator; the van did not overheat again.
"The whole trip was a lesson in humility," said Chad Teigen, one of the men's resident directors at Columbia. The group arrived home on March 3, feeling that they had been taught to depend on God.
Susan Tucker Braid
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