Two students go on mission trip to Montana

Rachel Aldrich and Victoria Schutte in front of Mt. Rushmore.

Rachel Aldrich and Victoria Schutte, students at Murphy Adventist Christian School and members of the Murphy Pathfinder Youth Club, participated in the Georgia-Cumberland Pathfinder Mission Challenge Trip 2008. The group of enthusiastic Pathfinders traveled from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Harlem, Mont., by bus. There they helped scrape, prime, and paint the outside of the Seventh-day Adventist church located on the reservation, plus helped with other projects inside the church.

The Pathfinders led out in a Vacation Bible School in the evenings for the local children on the reservation. Aldrich and Schutte led the song service, and then one worked as a group leader while the other helped with crafts. On one Sabbath the youth provided the worship service for the church.

During the trip the group also enjoyed site-seeing. They visited Yellowstone National Park, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Monument, the Badlands National Park, Custer State Park, and the Lewis and Clark Museum.

Aldrich states, "We both had a wonderful time and will never forget the experiences we shared and the friends we met along the way."