Wednesday, April 1, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Students expand
horizons on mission trip
By sianna Flowers
Correspondent
It is no secret that Sisters
is a bit of a haven from the
“real world” — safe and
sheltered from the harsh real-
ities many face in their daily
lives. Many people move to
Sisters for this very reason.
But there are still plenty of
opportunities to expand your
horizons in Sisters, such as
the outreach trip several stu-
dents participated in recently.
High school students Dyut
Fetrow, Amanda Smith,
Ashley Smith, Anna Bartlett,
Serena Salisbury, Dustin
Smith, Dani Rudinsky,
Jordan Pollard, Cole Pade,
Natalie Marshall, Danika
Wagner and Galen Boles
along with adults Jared Vogt,
Sarah Hansen, Chris Hansen
and Michelle Smith all went
to Portland for five days on
Vast Church’s annual “Serve
Portland” trip.
Youth pastor Jared Vogt
describes the activities and
purpose of the trip.
“We did a work project at
a struggling middle school,
we manned the hospitality
room of the Union Gospel
Mission, where we passed
out food and got to talk and
pray with the homeless, and
we served in their women
and children’s shelter that
takes in homeless and hurt-
ing moms and their kids
and helps them rebuild their
lives,” he said.
The students stayed
at Mount Olivet Baptist
Church.
The students were all
deeply touched by the work
they did in Portland, espe-
cially with the homeless, but
it didn’t start out that way. As
Vogt recalls, “Life in Sisters
is so different, and at the
beginning of the trip it was
clear that our students were
afraid of many of the people
we were interacting with
because they looked different
and didn’t smell very good
either.”
H o w e v e r, s o m e t h i n g
shifted during the trip. The
men and women who sleep
on the streets of Portland
went from uncomfortable
misfortunates to real people
with hopes, dreams, and
stories.
As senior Dani Rudinsky
said, “A highlight was spend-
ing time with some homeless
people just joking around
with them on a very basic,
very human level… At the
Union Gospel Mission we
also got to serve them on
a basic level by just giving
them food. We would each
take turns sitting down with
one of them to listen and to
pray. They are amazingly
open, and all appreciated
prayer.”
But it wasn’t just the
downtrodden that this
trip ministered to. It also
strengthened the students.
The group was comprised of
freshmen and seniors, boys
and girls, athletes and art-
ists. Each of them brought
something different to the
table but they were united
by one purpose: to serve “as
Jesus first served us,” as Vogt
put it. This common ground
strengthened relationships.
“I came home with new
close friends, and have grown
even closer to those I knew
well that were with us. I am
proud I could spend some of
my senior-year spring break
on that mission trip,” said
Galen Boles.
Serve Portland produces
notable memories, and not all
of them about serving. There
is also a tradition of night
games like “Murder in the
House” which create memo-
ries that stick with students.
This pseudo-horror-movie
game gets everyone scream-
ing and laughing in the same
breath and rehashing mur-
ders long past the actual
crime.
As Danika Wagner recalls,
“It gets pretty intense. I kind
of thought I might actually
get killed.” Activities like
this are really the icing on the
cake of the Serve Portland
trip.
Serve Portland was a
unique experience that
brought students close to
each other, strangers, and
God. As Rudinsky put it
“[Serving others] is a sim-
pler task than you think, and
the return is greater than you
could imagine.”
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