Service Trips 2007

Last spring 2007, TKA high school students traveled to three different locations as part of the Trippin’ ’07 Servant Safari. Over 525 high school students, parent volunteers and staff members caravanned down in 90 vehicles to the outskirts of Tijuana. In addition to building over eighteen houses, they began construction of a new orphanage and hosted an afternoon “Kid's Club” for neighborhood children and their families.

With enormous devastation still at large in the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, forty 11th and 12th grade students, staff and adult volunteers traveled to Pascagoula, Mississippi. With the expertise they’ve gained through the Mexico Servant Safari, students were well prepared to help with the jobs that involved more skill. There they installed new sheetrock, hung new doors and laid down new floors, such as carpet, tile, wood or vinyl. 

A third option for junior and senior students was a service trip to the Appalachian Mountains, where the basic necessities of life are still at large for many people. Twenty students, staff and parent volunteers traveled to Kentucky to work with Christian Appalachian Project (CAP), an organization that has, for more than a decade, sponsored Operation New Hope, a special program designed to meet the most basic housing needs of impoverished families struggling to survive in Appalachia.
More information on our 2008 service trips will be available shortly!