The youth at United Christian Church participate annually in a week-long mission trip with several other area churches, including Round Rock Christian Church, Congregational Church of Austin, Hyde Park Christian Church, University Christian Church, and United Christian Church of Taylor. Over the last several years, we have gone to Washington D.C. to help with an afterschool program with inner-city youth, to New Orleans to help clean up some of the post-Katrina devestation, to Heifer Ranch in Arkansas to learn about world hunger, and to Navejo Nation in New Mexico.

This last year, our trip was to Southwest Good Samaritan Ministries in Los Fresnos, Texas. We installed insulation and drywall, we built a sprinkler system, and painted like it was going out of style. Most importantly, we helped a group who does really good work, and we helped some folks who really needed some help - and somehow, we even managed to squeeze in some fun (of course, in this group, we have a blast when we work together to help others).