YOUTH MISSION TRIPS
Each year our youth participate in a local, national, or international mission trip, based on a three-year rotation.
2010 EUGENE OREGON YOUTH MISSION TRIP
August 8-13 2010
This summer our team of 18 youth and adults will travel to Eugene Oregon. Each day we will go to a variety of service/work sites ranging from hands on to behind the scenes work. We may work in a community garden, a food rescue program, prepare food in a soup kitchen, work at a recycling center, distribute food boxes to the poor and lead worship at a youth and family homeless shelter. When we don't have service projects our group will be led through a curriculum that deals with issues like cultural differences and the difference between justice and mercy, poverty etc.
2010 YOUTH MISSION TEAM
Past Trips
2008 Mississippi Mission Team- Youthworks
2007 Summer/Fall- The youth have taken part in helping serve meals at Operation Nightwatch in Seattle as a way to serve locally in our community.
In 2006, Aldersgate joined members from Prosser UMC and Seattle's Grace UMC on a mission trip to Eleuthera Island, Bahamas. We partnered with Camp Symonette, a United Methodist Church camp on Eleuthera, to assist with reconstruction projects on hurricane-damaged homes. We also implemented Vacation Bible School programs at a nearby school and participated in a fellowship and sports ministry evening to connect with the local people. More information on Elethera Island and Camp Symonette can be found at: http://www.methodisthabitat.org.
In 2005, we went to Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, in San Francisco, to serve meals to the hungry and homeless. Glide is the largest social service organization in the city, serving over one million meals a year! Check it out at http://www.glide.org.