Why San Francisco? - Pt. 1

Reason #1: Because it's domestic. A group of our students went to Northern Ireland last year for a missions trip. We wanted to be careful in spreading the aura that missions trips had to be overseas in order for them to seem legitimate. We thought it appropriate to alternate things: foreign one year, domestic the next.

Reason #2: Because it's close enough...but at the same time it's kind of far. I know that sounds kind of lame, but it's the truth. On a good day--without much traffic--Los Angeles is about 45 minutes away from where we are in Orange County. Which puts that city of Angels right in our back yard. And not to say that we want to look beyond the needs of our backyard, but San Francisco provides some natural distance that made it attractive when thinking about bringing some high school students along for the ride.