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Mission Trips

2012 Mission Trip – Cleveland, TN
June 24 – 30, 2012

Deposits due by January 31
$100 – 12 years and older
$ 50 -- under 12

Fundraisers for the Trip include selling Butterbraids, Soup Cook-off (February 5), Picnic Lunch in May, deposits, and . . .

New this Year – Need some work done around your house? Something repaired or painted or created? How about checking with the Mission Trip Team! They would like to help you with house projects and, if you wish, you can make a donation to the 2012 mission trip.

Notes from previous Mission Trips

Intergenerational Mission Trip to Oakville, Iowa:  Pastor Kent's thoughts ...

A few days before leaving for Iowa, I asked Kathy, “Are we sure these houses should be rebuilt? Aren’t they just rebuilding in the flood plain?”   After being in Oakville for just a couple of days, it became clear to me that God put us there.   The people in Oakville are not the powerful who get in on decisions about where water will be released to prevent flooding upstream.   What is also true is that many of them cannot afford to go anywhere else. This is their home.   The flood that hit in June of 2008 was not the usual high water, but was the largest flood in recorded history. So we set about the task of rebuilding houses.

It became, clear, however, that we were really about the task of giving hope. I wondered if some of the people in Oakville have ever really had someone go out of their way to show this kind of care or support. My last day there, a few of us helped a lady in her yard. There was junk everywhere and the weeds were pretty high. I could see how it would be easy to feel overwhelmed. After a few hours, we had a truck load of the junk hauled off and the weeds trimmed down. The elderly woman said, “I can’t believe how much different it looks.”   She even put in a new flowerbed in the front of the house, and told us about other plans to spruce things up. That is hope.