Teen Mission Adventure
Teen Mission Adventure is a project initiated by caring Pathfinder Staff who felt that teens - all teens should be able to participate in an affordable missionary trip. Where better, they reasoned, than in "their own backyard " --the Upper Columbia Conference!
Teen Mission Adventure takes place each year during Spring break. This year the dates are March 21through March 28, 2010.
Teen Mission Adventure presents an opportunity for teen Pathfinders to actively minister to a designated area within the Upper Columbia Conference. Each year a project is selected where Pathfinders, Pathfinder Staff, and other churchmembers assist in constructing church buildings or renovating existing structures while also conducting outreach activities within the community.
The self-growth potential during these mission projects is phenomonal while renovating a church in Brewster WA the town people were singularly impressed with the teamwork of such a large group of teenagers. This group in 2007 cleared brush from a construction site, tore down a structure in one part of town and transported it to the site of the new Spokane Junior Academy.
Crazy but true, workers actually pay* to take part of this mission trip and are restful and eager for each day's assignment after sleeping on hard floors in sleeping bags. Of course, everyone is well fed - three meals a day. Pathfinders return year after year to take part in this activitiy.
In 2008 the activity was held in Goldendale, Washington on the grounds of the new Project Patch Ranch and last year the Pathfinders went to Camp Mivoden in Hayden Lake, ID to see what the LORD wanted them to do in that community. They cleaned a home of a house-bound neighbor; cut wood; moved the furniture from the Pine Guest Rooms and completely stripped the rooms to the studs in preparation for Maranatha Volunteers to completely redesign the rooms.
Are you interested? Contact your Pathfinder club director for a form and the letter.
The deadline to register this year is March 7. Join us for an experience that will be extremely rewarding -physically, spiritually and mentallly.
* the cost this year is $ 100.00
