EMMETSBURG - Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Bethany Lutheran Church's Youth Mission Trip was canceled. So Bethany Lutheran developed "Mission Blasts" Wednesdays. Each week in July, the congregation's youth and some adults did various mission projects around Emmetsburg. Work included painting the outhouse at Duhigg Park, conducting a talent parade around Horizons Unlimited homes, hosting a To-Go Meal for the congregation, holding an online T-shirt fundraiser for Global Missions, packing 311 quilts (made by Bethany Lutheran's quilting groups) and 81 kits for Lutheran World Relief. Youth also picked up trash and sticks around Gappa Point and Duhigg Park.