Consider this:  Consider spending the year after you graduate serving overseas or locally in the mission field.  Spend that year serving others.  Learning about the REAL needs in people.  Learning how the world really works.  Letting your heart be changed.  Letting your character be shaped and molded by God.

Before you come up with excuses, consider the answer to these questions:

·What better way to figure out what you want to do with your life?
·What better way to make yourself attractive to the college of your choice?
·What better time in your life to do something like that?
·What better way to give your life meaning?
·What better way to give your folks a year more to save for college for you?

Here are just a few of the thousands of relief and missions organizations that you could serve alondside for that year.  Why don't you check out a few of theme and see how you might plug in to them?

Serve in the states through Americorps: http://www.americorps.org

Serve overseas in the Peace Corps: http://www.peacecorps.org

Help with World Vision:  http://www.worldvision.org

Serve with City Team:  http://cityteam.org

San Francisco Rescue Mission:  http://www.sf911.com

Prepare people to serve overseas through AIM: http://www.adventures.org

Help free people from oppression by working with the International Justice Mission:  www.ijm.org

Just a wild idea, perhaps a good one.

Missions·Relief·Justice