The 10-day service trip, coordinated by Youth For Christ, enabled 38 women and 21 men from several Mason City churches to travel to Juarez, Mexico, a city of more than 2 million people, said Craig Pinley, co-associate pastor at First Covenant Church.

The theme for tonight’s Youth for Christ campus life meeting is “Living in the Moment,” and that’s certainly what the 50 Bloomington high schoolers are doing. Divided equally into four groups — each group bound together by a rope — they’re romping across a massive yard like puppies on a playground. The game is called “group tag,” and as a cluster of boys chases a bunch of screaming girls, the females trip and collapse onto the lawn in a pitiful heap. Moments later, the youngsters are sitting on the grass in small groups — each with an adult leader — discussing what “living in the moment” means to them.