HE LIVES! He lives inside our hearts!
How better to take part in Christ’s resurrection than to work with a community to rebuild, replant, renew, regenerate and re-emerge stronger than ever following last summer’s devastating tornado season? Each time we take on His work in the world, we proclaim to all, HE LIVES! He lives inside our hearts!
June 8-14 High School Youth will travel to Oklahoma for a week-long mission experience to not only help this community recover from catastrophic tornado damage but to take an active part in Kingdom work. We will join our efforts with those from congregations throughout the United States in a summer of love and devotion to our ‘Neighbors’. We will be working with Volunteers in Mission a division of Disciples Home Missions and taking part in reconstruction, demolition and possibly even replanting green spaces that were stripped bare in the paths of these tornados.
We estimate it will cost about $450 per person for food, housing and transportation for this experience, a small price to pay for an incredible opportunity. We’re late getting started on the fundraising due to delays in declaring an exact date to end the school year…thanks to a crazy winter! So, there is a lot of work to be done between now and then!
Here are a few ways you can help us get going…
- PRAY! Hold in prayer our mission team and the people they will serve.
- PARTICIPATE! Join us in our journey, help out with fundraising events and/or financially support our efforts. You can sponsor a youth, or just donate a portion. Perhaps even pooling funds from the whole family to make it possible for one of our youth to go.
- PAY to PLAY! Youth will host a Family Fun Game Night and Auction on May 24th. Join us for dinner, games and a whole lot of fun for everyone. At the end of the evening you’ll have an opportunity to bid on homemade goodies to take home or to bid on a youth or two to help out with any work you need accomplished.
- PARK! (just keeping with the ‘P’ theme) Park your car under our soap-filled sponges on May 3rd and tell all your friends so we can raise money for our trip.
- PLANT! Mother’s Day, May 11th the Youth will be selling flats of flowers. These make wonderful Mother’s Day gifts and provide a splash of color to your lawns…maybe even use that youth you bought to plant them for you!
First Christian Church is a congregation dedicated to ministry outside our doors and serving others in Christ-like manner. Our youth are fantastic delegates for your ministries and they would love the opportunity to serve with your blessings.
He Lives! He lives within us all!
Tracy