Mission trips have a goal of service to fellow human beings, spiritual enrichment, and Christian fellowship.

Past mission trips:

• July, 2007, 9th Grade youth traveled to Red Lake Nation in Northern Minnesota.
• July, 2007, Senior high youth went to St. Louis, Missouri. ( 2 Meg uncompressed picture )
• July, 2006, Senior High Mission Trip was to Logan, West Virginia, in Appalachia, an area of cultural richness, but dire poverty.
• In July, 2005, Senior High youth Mission Trip was to Juarez, Mexico, doing some home construction and some Bible School work.
• In July, 2004, Senior High youth traveled to Philadelphia, PA, the 5th biggest city in the nation, for a variety of service projects in the areas of homelessness, hunger, and poverty, and stretching our faith.
• In June, 2004, 9th Grade youth traveled to Toronto, Canada's biggest city and participated in a program called TOOLS, service and learning about the circumstances of poverty and marginalization, working with a food bank, homeless shelter, kid's program, and soup kitchen.
• In 2003 a group went to Winnipeg, CA.
• In '02 the Senior High went to Pine Ridge Reservation in SD to paint, wash cars, build, clean, and learn with the Oglala Lakota people.
• In '02 the ninth graders went to Chicago to work with the soup kitchen/beacon of hope called the Marquard Center.
• In '02 the seventh graders went to Minneapolis to work and play with the kids who live at Mary's Place.
• In '01, a group went to Chicago where they worked with a church in a housing project called Cabrini Green. They led a vacation bible school for the kids and did various work projects for the church.
• In '01, a group again went to Dupree, SD to do similar work as in '00.
• In '00 the mission trip went to a small town located on the Cheyenne Indian Reservation in South Dakota called Dupree. Service projects there included building a playground behind the church and ministering to the children by washing their feet and giving them new shoes and school-supplies.
• In '99 the youth traveled to Caroline Furnace Lutheran Bible Camp in the state of Virginia. They helped to build a new log chapel, did general upkeep projects, helped with forest conservation projects, and participated in camp life.
• In '98 Rebecca went with the youth to Wiarton, Ontario in Canada to do landscaping and cleaning for St. Paul Lutheran Church.
• In '97 Pastor Chris and Rebecca lead the youth on a trip to New York, New York to work in Trinity Lower East Side's Soup Kitchen.
• In '96 Pastor Chris went with the youth to Colorado to help build a house for Habitat for Humanity.
• In '95 Pastor Chris lead the youth on a trip to Kentucky to build houses.
• 1994 - Luther Park Bible Camp in Chetek, Wisconsin.

Mission trips were started at GSC in 1995 by then youth pastor Chris Brekke.