Every day I open my inbox and find stories from you, I am excited. It’s a joy to read accounts of swim camp, gardening, blessings ministry, and other ACC activities. Writing about your experience, sharing it with others, makes you an advocate for this community, and helps process your time in Helena.

By the time you are ready to leave this place, you are exhausted. But it’s a good, rewarding tired. You know you have worked, and worked hard. You held a hand, knocked down a wall, replanted a crape myrtle, taught an adult to swim, visited the sick, loved a child, rode on a bumpy bus to the middle of nowhere, baked cookies – all to spread the Gospel. All to follow the call of Christ.

These simple things help restore hope in an often hopeless community. To the more than 300 local and outside volunteers, thank you. Thank you for your willingness to work, and your willingness to share your experiences.

We hope God will bring you back to this place.

Peace,

Catherine Bahn, Student.go Intern with Together for Hope