Author Archives: Geist Youth

Spent our last two days having some fun! Started our day yesterday (Friday) waking up early and having some yummy donuts from Holy Toledough (great name for a donut shop in Toledo!!!) and headed to Cedar Point! The weather wasn’t the best midday, but the rain didn’t stop our fun! Pastor Kyle joined us asContinue reading “Last Two Days in Toledo!”

“Today was one of my favorite days of the trip! In the morning, we got to go to a church and we walked around downtown Toledo. We saw lots of art and learned about the history of Toledo! In the afternoon we got to go to an animal nursery and saw lots of wild animalsContinue reading “Art & Animals: Last Day of Work”

After building the parts of the bed frames on Monday afternoon, tonight our group got to deliver beds to 8 children in need of a safe & comfortable place to sleep. The youth brought the beds into the rooms and worked with the kids to set up their own beds. Working together with drills andContinue reading “Let’s Deliver Beds!”

Half way through our week and half way done with our work in Toledo. We spent the morning split up into two different groups, half of us going to St. Lucas Lutheran and the other half to St. Paul Lutheran to help them prepare to serve our neighbors in Toledo. Both churches serve daily mealsContinue reading “Our Day of Loving Our Toledo Neighbors”

Today the weather cooperated with us so we got a full day of work in! We started off at Off the Streets Toledo, a five year organization that supports neighbors experiencing homelessness secure permit housing with security deposit assistances & furniture. Today we loaded up a truck with furniture and delivered them to two differentContinue reading “A full day of work brings lots of adventures!”

Our first morning didn’t go quite to plan. Due to rain, we were not able to go to work with Clean Streams. But after a chill morning of group bonding, we headed to Let’s Build Beds to, well, build beds! This 8-year-old non-profit is run completely by volunteers and serves 100 mile radius around ToledoContinue reading “Let’s Build Beds!”

Our crew has made it safely to Toledo, Ohio! It was a fun & easy ride down. We’ve been enjoying the night getting to know our home away from home at Epiphany Lutheran Church. Stay tuned for all tomorrow has to offer!

I woke up later than all my other bunkmates on my side. They had gone to an off-site location earlier that morning, but I had asked to stay back because I wanted to finish the work I had started. I got ready for the day, ate a good breakfast, and got to work. In theContinue reading

Today, we got the entire playground covered with tarp and made great progress mulching over it. We also moved rocks and trash out of the creek. Once we were in the creek, it got pretty deep, so we all ended up in water up to our waists. Despite the freezing cold water, we had loadsContinue reading “Divide and Conquer”