Arlington Work Camp

Last week, I was able to participate in Arlington Work Camp, which is where the youth of the Arlington, Grand Prairie and Mansfield Churches of Christ come together and paint a persons home who can't afford it, or are not capable of doing it and do other things around the house that keep it kept up. There was also a youth group from Richardson and a youth group from Denison participating this year. My group had a sweet 80 year old lady in East Arlington whose house was yellow, and we painted it chocolate brown and a light khaki color. Our first day, we asked her what she wanted us to sing to her, and she said Josh Groban's "You Raise Me Up" which we did not have ready the first or second days of the three day camp. On the last day, I had printed up the lyrics to "You Raise Me Up", and our group sang it for her. I love Work Camp, because you meet new people and it's fun, plus you get to be the hands and feet of Jesus by blessing others. It's a great summer kick-off. I think there were around 200 teens this years, and we all pay to be able to do this.