Mission Trip 1: The Setting

It turns out our mystery mission trip was to San Antonio, Texas. We drove about twenty hours over Saturday and Sunday, and stayed at Covenant Presbyterian Church Sunday through Friday nights. Monday through Friday during the days we worked at Mission Road Developmental Center for their program SOAR, Summer Outreach And Recreation. MRDC is a facility that has five group homes for mentally retarded kids ages 7 to 17, as well as several adult homes we didn't deal with at all. During the year the kids go to school, and in the summer they do SOAR, which is designed especially to have youth groups come in and volunteer.