Students across Manitoba are getting ready for school to start again after spending their spring break on a mission trip in the inner-city of Winnipeg.

SOAR Heartland concluded ten days of missions yesterday with a closing service at North Kildonan Mennonite Brethren Church. High school students from churches and schools spent their spring break eating, sleeping, worshiping and living together, while serving at various ministries throughout the core and North End of Winnipeg.

Scott was a participant and said that the experience gave him tools to fight the spiritual battles ahead. "I had good days and bad days but at the midst of it all, God was good," Scott said. "Even if I wasn't the one on the spiritual high, I saw him working in others."

Many of those tools are talked about during the first four days. The next five are spent at groups individual ministry locations, often working with kids. The final day is spent debriefing with your team and the community.

"Ten days of intense community-living, serving, worship and learning definitely takes a toll on our bodies," Lloyd Letkeman, Mission Mobilizer for MB Mission said of the week. "However, where two or three gather in the name of Jesus, His spirit is present."

Letkeman said the youth will be heading back to school tomorrow filled with the Spirit. "[They will be] ready to continue to live on mission regardless of their geography."

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