Our last full day in Rapid City!!!

Well we have made it! After months of prayer, meetings, and a ton of planning our time here in Rapid City has come to the end. We had such a great time, the memories will last for a lifetime, and many new relationships began and will continue long after the trip is "over". Today as a fun day, we had planned a few activities to see another side of Rapid City and to have some fun. The first activity was to take a drive through Bear Country USA. This place was a big drive-thru zoo where the animals could come right up to your vehicles (pictures to come). They had a bunch of bears, elk, deer, wolves, rams, and buffalo. It is one thing to see some of these guys from a safe distance at a zoo like Brookfield, but to see them up close and personal in a much more lifelike habitat was another thing all together. After lunch we headed over to Watiki Waterpark (indoor waterpark) for a few hours of play time and water fun. We finished off the main part of our day with dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings. We felt that if we were going to go out in style, why not do something that had Buffalo involved, right?

We want to thank each of you for your support through prayer, and even financially. We had a lot of fun, totally bonded as a group, and connected with another group here in Rapid City in a way that nobody would have predicted. The service projects we did will stand out for years and will hopefully stimulate a desire to continue serving the least and the lost back home in Illinois. My hope and prayer is that this is just the beginning for our students, that their heart began to melt so that it can be transformed by the Lord and be used for His purposes and his Glory in the days, weeks, and years to come! It was a great time and words can't describe everything, but I think we are all ready to come home, so we will see you then!!!

God Bless,
Dan