Personal Narrative: Deep Impact In Shelby, North Carolina

Over the past summer I had the opportunity to go to Deep Impact in Shelby, North Carolina. Deep Impact is a mission camp that is run by The Baptist Men that gathers youth groups throughout the state to help the needy and to spread the Word of Jesus. There were different mission teams at the camp and I was placed on a construction team. On my construction team, we helped elderly and disabled people by building wheelchair ramps for them.The construction team had three supervisors, and they made the kids on the team do most of the work. We would do different kinds of work like digging out holes for posts, saw boarding, or screwing in decking boards. I really enjoyed this kind of work and it really made me feel good that when we finished, we were
After the demolition part of the job, the ramp went up like the first two did. It was a really awesome experience because everyone on the team did not know each other at all or not very good on the first day, but after working together for four days, everyone felt like they had known each other all along. The most meaningful part of this mission trip was meeting with the people that we built the ramps for. One lady that we met with had not been able to go outside for months and she was a Hospice patient. She told us that she was so exited and happy because she could now go outside and here the birds. Hearing her say this just made me feel warm inside because something so small made such a huge difference in her life. This trip really helped me grow as a person because I can see how easy it is to take small things for granted like going outside and listening to the birds chirp. I am very excited about another mission trip that I will be able to go on next summer. I will be traveling to the Bahamas to help many other people who are in poverty and to spread the love of Jesus. I hope that it will be as great as an experience as Deep