A Typical Day...

So, you know a little about where we are serving...but what does our normal daily routine look like?
YouthWorks is very structured, so there's not much left to guessing.
Each day, there is a 'cheese' group assigned to breakfast crew. That crew meets in the kitchen at 6:45am to start prepping. At 7am, those not up yet are awakened (although I must say we have a LOT of early risers in this group...myself NOT included). Everyone meets for breakfast at 7:15am.
At 7:45am, there is a crew that is assigned to clean the building (bathrooms, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming throughout building, etc). Everyone else has 1/2 hour of free time.
At 8:15am, the entire group meets for Devotions. At the beginning of the week, we were each given a devotional guide - each day we have 1/2 hour of quiet time to work on this.
At 9:00am each day, we all go to our various ministry sites until 12p. We break for lunch, then 4 of the 6 groups, go on to their afternoon sites from 1p-3:30p, at which time they head over to the showers and get back to Unity Lutheran Church (where we are staying) at 4:30p. The other 2 groups shower at lunch time, then head to their afternoon sites from 2p-4:30p.
4:30p-5:30p - free time - unless you are the dinner crew, who starts cooking at 5p.
6:30p - we do various activities each night. Last night was the prayer drive, tonight they went to the United Community Center - an anti-drug and anti-violence center where they will hear stories from ex-gang members and former drug-users about how God has completely transformed their lives. (I'm actually skipping this activity so that I can update the blog for all of you...so I hope someone is actually reading all of this!)
At 8:45p each night we have snack and then at 9:00p we have Club. During Club time, we worship together and have a Bible study lesson.
Following Club, we break into church groups (so the Oklahoma group is with us at all other times), so that we can give the students time to debrief and talk about their days. It's amazing to hear some of the insight these kids have...I mean, how old are they???
Every night at 11pm is lights out. And unlike most overnight trips with the teens, they go to sleep VERY quickly...as they are pretty much exhausted by then.
So that's about it. There's a lot cram packed in there...but it's worth it:-)
I posted what pics I've collected so far from today. I haven't heard many stories yet, since we won't be meeting until late tonight...so if there's anything overly exciting...I'll post it tomorrow.
For pics, check out this link
MILWAUKEE MISSION TRIP - TUESDAY