Summer has begun at United Church of Rogers Park and this means mission trips! This past weekend, we had high school youth from the Church of the Resurrection in Lewood, KS's east campus in Olathe, KS here on a mission trip for our first mission trip team of the summer.

This team worked hard! They painted the entire house that we will be using for mission trips during the summer and then to house an intentional community in the fall, they put in raised beds that will soon be planted with vegetables in front of the house, organized all the art supplies in a new closet they built, and brought a crew that set up and networked all the computers in the library. The crew worked hard but also took some time to enjoy themselves by going down to Devon Avenue to try Indian food and spending one day of their trip downtown eating the famous Chicago deep dish pizza, visiting Millenium Park, and doing a boat tour of the city.