Allie Neugeboren, Features Editor @alneugiecourant Imagine exploring Southeast Asia with your best friend as well as a bunch of strangers, traveling through its countries and villages
Tag: Church
2015 YG Mission Trip Wrap-up
Emilia Savini @ESaviniCourant Features Editor The NCHS Courant spoke with YGers before they embarked on their 2015 mission. To learn more about the trip’s objective
Preview to Youth Group’s Annual February Service Trip
Emilia Savini @ESaviniCourant Features Editor While most students will be spending February break lounging on a tropical beach vacation or sitting home in the cold
Lessons learned through YG
Harrison Burt
Blogs Editor
I had absolutely no interest in doing YG at the beginning of my junior year. I had spoken to dozens of YG “fish” who claimed their February mission trip with the Congregationalist Church of NC to be the most rewarding and life-changing ten days of their lives…but I was still not intrigued. Why would I want to give up ten days of tanning in the Bahamas to refurnish Hurricane Katrina destroyed homes? Please, someone tell me.
Holidays: the Universal Religion
Juan Pablo Rivera Garza
Reporter
Religion, the very source of all major winter holidays has been repeatedly pushed aside recently by those who feel it is a downer on an otherwise joyful holiday season. In a time when 15% of Americans do not identify with a religion, many see the holidays as a secular affair. Many people still believe that religion needs to be at the forefront of the holidays, others think that without religion, we get rid of an unnecessary stick in the mud during the winter festivities.