Wyatt Fry - Age: 19

Wyatt visiting with local family

QUESTIONS

1) Have you ever been on a mission trip before, and what made you decide to go to Romania?
2) Write very briefly about your experience working as a team with other Trinity members putting together a VBS program - what was it like, and did it help you to better understand what it means to be part of the "body of Christ"?
3) What was your favorite part of the trip? Least favorite part?
4) (Optional) Did you feel especially connected to God in any way during this trip? If so, how, and why do you think that may have happened?

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1. Yes, I have been on other Trinity-sponsored trips in the past. I cannot choose any one thought or instance that primarily made the decision; I only filled out the application as a way to respond to Jesus' desire for his disciples, praying that if it pleased him that I go, let it be so. Now, in retrospect, I am learning that I love the presence and tutelage of young people. Being a part of this team has helped me learn how to work together, serving the young or marginalized, in a way that pleases God.



2. When I finally lay down on my mattress in the kindergarten at the end of each day, it appeared that as much as we prepared and planned and anticipated, there was little that could be done to be ready for that which we were immersed. Logistically, we were set. Frisbees, glitter-glue, and camp-songs abounded, yet the souls with which we intermingled surpassed expectations. There is some kind of divine magic that meets the uniting of Romanian and United States citizens, people musical and athletic, comforters actively seeking and sensitively subtle, words said and unsaid, the power of a smile. Never before can I recall a clearer and more complete picture of Christ's body in the context of my own church.



3. In Romania, beauty is exposed. Not always the kind of beauty that you see in Vogue or in some movies, but the kind of beauty that restores your faith in the "very-good-ness" of God's creation. My favorite part of the trip was watching a particular parent as the week carried on. There was a way about his behavior that filled me with wonder; whether he was watching his daughter patiently with arms folded as she frolicked about, or closely involved in a craft or game with her, he wore what could be interpreted as a smile. But it was something more than the pre-smile, it was how confidently he managed to practice love for his daughter and gratitude for those staffing the camp at the same time that really got me. I am very sorry that we did not spend more time in prayer, neither in our group from Trinity, nor with the World Vision team. It was frighteningly easy to become so absorbed in the moment that one forgets the closeness of God.