Information for Group Workcamps: Charleston, SC

Their Cost: $262/person

Who is Group Workcamps?

This is a youth mission trip ministry by Group Publishing, a company that makes a lot of youth and children’s Bible study material.

What we would do:

Your can use simple service to touch lives.  Over five exciting days, you have the chance to put your energy and enthusiasm to work for people in need.  The week will involve a carefully prepared mix of work, play and programs.  Service includes serving the elderly, tutoring struggling kids, helping at a food bank, and assisting at a day camp. You will serve in important roles, learn new skills, and have loads of fun!

And, when the sun goes down, you will experience awesome interactive programs including Scripture, worship, video, and drama.

 

Information for Youth on Mission: New Orleans

Their Cost: $305/person

What we would do:

Just as it was in Philadelphia, YOM would assign us a weeklong project that they think best matches our skills and interests with a particular church or ministry in the New Orleans area.  Possibilities include home repair, Vacation Bible School and other children’s ministry events, volunteering at homeless, shelters, etc

 

Information for DOOR: Atlanta

Their Cost: $295/person

Who is DOOR?

DOOR (Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection) is a faith based network of  urban service-learning programs that expose, educate, challenge, and motivate participants to respond to the issues and concerns facing an increasingly urban world.

What we would do:

Through weeks and weekends in the city, participants immerse themselves in urban life and serve in community-based ministries.  Your group will participate in coordinated trips designed to challenge your group to “see the face of God in the city” as you spend time listening, volunteering, and reflecting on your experiences.

Your group can come to one of our cities to experience the city:

• Volunteering at a variety of community agencies
• Staying at facilities in the city
• Participating in a network of service-learning opportunities
• Hearing a local perspective on the city
• Using public transportation (when available)
• Interacting with people of the city
• Reflecting on their experiences

Each day features a service assignment between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. followed by afternoon free time, dinner and an evening session. On the final night, participants reflect together on what they have seen, felt and experienced for the week.

 

YAM JAM!

Gleaners in a farm field

The Society of St. Andrew of North Carolina is holding its 18th annual “YAM JAM!” gleaning event in Johnston County.  We’re going to take part in this awesome opportunity to make a difference by recovering lots and lots of leftover potatoes from the harvest so that they can be sent to soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and other places where the poor and hungry are fed.  Last year, 126,620 pounds of potatoes were gleaned from the fields and they plan on beating that goal this year! 

Gleaning is a biblical practice found in the Old Testament in the book of Leviticus.  God told the people of Israel:

When you reap the harvest of yoru land, you shall not go all the way to the edge of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings [leftovers] after your harvest.  ANd you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes.  Leave all that for the poor and the wandering stranger.  I am the LORD your God!  [Leviticus 19:9-10]

Nowadays, its hard for the poor and hungry to find food in the fields – more often they live in the cities and don’t have cars to drive out to a farm.  So we’re going to glean for them to make sure they can eat!  Sign up in the youth basement and join us for this great mission project!

 

Operation Sharehouse Pics

Here are some pictures from the church-wide “Operation Sharehouse” food packaging event on Saturday:

Josh and DuPre unloading the truck

We're all ready to go!

Kyle and Josh pack a bag of food

Thomas cleans up!

 

Fight world hunger! Operation Sharehouse – August 16

Although millions of people around the world will go to bed hungry tonight, did you know that enough resources exist on Planet Earth right now to make sure that each and every person would get 4.3 pounds of food per day?  World hunger is a big problem, but it doesn’t have to be!

On August 16 at Roxboro Baptist Church, the youth, the children and the adults will have a chance to do their part to battle world hunger.  We will join with Stop Hunger Now to participate in “Operation Sharehouse.”  Through this event we will package thousands of dehydrated meals in our fellowship hall.  Thanks to our donations and our hard work, families in places devastated by famine, war, or other disasters can be fed enough to survive and thrive!  Please plan to be a part of this special (and fun) Saturday morning at the end of the summer.  To learn more about world hunger and Operation Sharehouse, watch the Youtube video below.  It was produced after an Operation Sharehouse event at North Carolina State in Raleigh.