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Heritage School Summer Mission Trip
Heritage School students and alumni participated in a West Texas mission project was led by teachers David & Katie Turpin and Curtis & Sara Allercamp, Fredericksburg representatives of Mision de Candelilla.
In addition, local builders/craftsmen, Andy Sears and Jeff Stewart, volunteered their time and expertise. The group traveled to a rough territory just north of Big Bend where Dick and Bonnie Cain operate a longhorn ranch on which they have a retreat center for folks who seek spiritual and physical rejuvenation. The students spent the week transforming an abandoned pole barn on the Cain property into a functional dormitory.
“I am tremendously inspired by the highschoolers who are so interested in the idea of sacrificing a week of their summer to do intense manual labor, serving the needs of others,” commented Turpin. “The fact is that these students not only talk about wanting to serve others, to make the world a better place, but they are seizing opportunities to serve.” Earlier this summer, a group of Heritage students spent a day doing landscaping work for an elderly woman in Fredericksburg. Turpin noted that “a student came to me with the idea to serve this particular woman in this way. I had nothing to do with concocting the project idea.” “The students are taking ownership of living life the way they believe it ought to be lived, not always waiting to be guided along by others” Turpin added. “Now that is exciting!”
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