10 easy steps to have the best MAB trip of all time:
1) Score killer housing like the River Ranch Resort, who graciously gave us a cabin with 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and huge living room and kitchen overlooking the Elk River.
2) Beautify a nursing home courtyard so the residents have somewhere cheery and safe to go; make a frog friend while you're at it.
2) Beautify a nursing home courtyard so the residents have somewhere cheery and safe to go; make a frog friend while you're at it.
3) Get all your groceries at a locally owned place, like Harps, and say hello to all the locals asking why you're wearing matching pink shirts
4) Hold a health clinic for the Burmese population screening blood pressures, BMIs and teaching on handwashing and good nutritional habits and...okay, mostly just ask them their 'story' and play with their kids :)
5) Attend a yummy dinner hosted for and by volunteers at the Senior Center so you can see how service extends through a lifetime and experience firsthand small town community pride
6) Be in three states (Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma) at once by standing on the Southwest City cornerstone and taking plenty of selfies
7) Stuff yourself until you're almost sick at a breakfast buffet made by gracious parishioners of the United Methodist Church
8) Clean up, ride on and maybe fall in the Elk River when you Big Elk Camp gives you canoes and a view in exchange for picking up a tire or two (a little easier said than done...)
9) Powwow and reflect on your opportunities any time you can with each other to figure out what's going right, what we could do better and where we should go from here -- and always have plenty of snacks while doing so
10) Take a long nap in the car ride home and think about how "little by little" the relationships and impacts made in McDonald can be built upon in order to bring the MAB message back to good ol' MO
6) Be in three states (Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma) at once by standing on the Southwest City cornerstone and taking plenty of selfies
7) Stuff yourself until you're almost sick at a breakfast buffet made by gracious parishioners of the United Methodist Church
8) Clean up, ride on and maybe fall in the Elk River when you Big Elk Camp gives you canoes and a view in exchange for picking up a tire or two (a little easier said than done...)
9) Powwow and reflect on your opportunities any time you can with each other to figure out what's going right, what we could do better and where we should go from here -- and always have plenty of snacks while doing so
10) Take a long nap in the car ride home and think about how "little by little" the relationships and impacts made in McDonald can be built upon in order to bring the MAB message back to good ol' MO
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