Leaders in Training

In June 2022, a team of our pre-teens traveled to Oklahoma for a mission trip. Here are reports from two of those students!

Jaden Burgess

In December of 2021, I was asked to go on a mission trip with the LIT (Leaders in Training) Mission group to Oklahoma. In June of 2022 we left for the mission trip. It was a three-hour car ride. In total, there were 17 people in all that went on the trip. While in Oklahoma we went to apartment complexes to share the Lord with the people who live there and we stayed in Eastwood Baptist Church. On the third day that we were there we threw a block party for all the people that lived at the apartment complexes.

Some of my favorite parts of the trip was being able to go help the people at the apartment complexes and being able to throw the block party and being an addition to that. We all got to help out at a food shelter and that was a very fun experience. I was very thankful for the kids who were at the apartment complexes because they were very nice and accepting. I am very thankful for the opportunity to go down to that mission trip and spread God's Word.

Some of the ways I saw God work on this mission trip was the fact hat 55 kids got saved in a matter of 5 days. And the fact that we got to be able to go to these apartment complexes and spread the word to the kids when most of them had never heard of God in their entire life.

It would be great if Ridgecrest could help pray for all the families out there. For example, there was a mom who had just given birth to a premature baby. Also, for all the kids out there who learned about God and got saved for them to be able to continue and grow in Him. Another would be for the rest of the kids who were out there and learned about God but didn't end up getting saved, that they can get saved eventually.

Claire Dailey

In June 2022, I was able to go on the LIT (Leaders In Training) mission trip to Tulsa, OK. Our team went to an apartment complex in Tulsa. We put up flyers around the complex and also knocked on doors to invite kids to come to Kids Power Camp. We set up a tent by the playground area and picnic tables. For several days, we taught them songs, led a craft, provided lunch, and taught them a Bible story each day. 

On one of the days, we got to help at a local food bank. A friend and I rotated between doing two things: putting noodles into bags and taking empty crates back to the beginning of the line to be filled up again! Each night, all of the church groups that were part of the LIT mission trip would come back together for evening worship at the host church. During evening worship we would sing worship songs, hear from kids about their day at their sites, and listen to a message from Pastor Clint May.

My favorite part of the trip was the night we hosted a block party for the kids. Some of the kids from apartments where we didn’t get to knock on their doors found out about the block party from our flyers and came. At the block party, we had sno cones, hot dogs, and an inflatable bounce house. I ran a sno cone machine and handed the sno cones to the children. The next day, we had many more kids come to our site for Kids Power Camp.

Whenever we handed out bibles to some of the kids, they seemed really excited and told us they would keep reading it! Also, there was a young girl who had a dream about a lady that was helping teach at our site. The little girl woke at 3:00 am and told her mom, “There was lady that was surrounded by angels in my dream!” When they got to the Kids Power Camp, they met the lady the little girl had dreamed about! The lady from her dream shared the Gospel with them and gave them a Bible. We were also able to give them a bag of food and the mother thanked us and told us she had worried they wouldn’t have enough food for the next few days. The bag of food also contained a booklet that shared the Gospel!

Pray for the little girl and her mom. Pray for the children in the apartment complexes where we did our Kids Power Camps. Pray for the food bank to continue to have donations to be able to provide food for the people we met in Tulsa, OK.