Youth & Children's Missions
1. The 30-Hour Famine
The youth of Region V participate in World Vision’s 30-Hour Famine every year where they practice the spiritual discipline of fasting while raising money through pledges to serve the hungry across the world.
2. Christian Children’s Fund
As part of this program, our Sunday School supports a schoolgirl named Tolofisa, from Uganda. Our support provides school fees, supplies, a lunch, and medical care.
3. Mission Night Out
For a small fee per child, the children’s mission team provides dinner, dessert, and entertainment for children from 5-12 years of age from 6-9 in the evening. The entertainment is mission based, so the children are helping others while the parents enjoy an evening out by themselves. We try to have 3 Mission Nights Out each year, each one focusing on a different theme: local, national, and international. This past year, the local Mission Night Out cut out price tags for Pennywise, wrote encouragement cards to soldiers in Iraq, made placemats for guests of the LAMB center, and decorated the dinner bags for FACETS. For the international one, we will be following a Five Talents program where each child makes something to sell at Market Day.
4. Children in Mission
Other opportunities for children doing mission occur throughout the year. Extra funds collected at Sunday School go towards medical coupons for needy families in Honduras through the Iglesia del Espiritu Santo in Copan Ruinas so they can have medical care. The Sunday School classes also go Christmas Caroling each December at an assisted living home, collect money for the United Thank Offering in October and the Lenten Eggs program in February-April, and bake cookies throughout the year for the Kairos Prison Ministry.
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