Chapter 4: Alabama (Part 2)

This is the second part of two for the Spring Break mission trip in Montgomery, Alabama...

Yeah, its been a week since I did the first part of this blog, but lucky for me I wrote some things down that we did on the trip so I can remember what happen on C4C mission trip. So, the following day we continued to work on the outside part of the house then for the rest of the afternoon, as a group we had a chance to work with the kids at Common Ground and their after school program. Half of us did the reading and writing, the other half did basketball/soccer. I was part of working with the kids doing basketball and soccer. These kids I think were pretty good for the most part but they can be wild at times.

Afterwards, we went to Landmark church to be apart their weekly meeting that was held that night. Had a chance to meet some of the students from the group get to know them for a little bit. Then, C4C and Landmark group well some of them anyway ate at Buffalo Wild Wings for the rest of the evening.

Thursday (two weeks ago) we put kind of the finishing touches of the house that Charles's family was about to move into. We had the opportunity to spend the afternoon in Montgomery downtown if I might add. To look at history of how the Civil Rights movement all started. It was a great experience to learn more about just it's history and how the Civil Rights played a big part in society back then. We went to the Civil Rights Museum, followed by a trip to the Rosa Parks museum. It gave a more in-depth analysis on how the Rosa made her stand in the history books.

To end things in Montgomery we had a chance to go back to the Landmark church one more to hangout with the students to play games...including playing a game called "kick the can." It a game where everyone who is not the seeker goes and hide in a room or something and you can't get caught. If you do, you have to go to jail (not that kind of jail) someone who is not caught can try to kick the can without getting caught. Idk, that the simplest way to put it, I guess.

On the way back from Montgomery, we made another stop in Memphis again to look around the city and walked around Graceland (some kind of park) to see where Elvis Presley's house was. And that the summary of what happen during the trip to Alabama.