Serving in Mission
Where Are We Going?
Our Next Mission Trip will be the Summer of 2020!
Where Have We Been?
Our Last Mission Trip in the Summer of 2018 was to SWAP (Sharing with Appalachian People) in Harlan, KY! We learned of the Appalachian culture and how to put siding on a home!
You can check out their website for more info!
Christmas Time
Instead of doing a group gift exchange, our group chooses to pull our resources together and work with The Salvation Army of Champaign and the Adopt-A-Family program. Every Christmas, we adopt a family to provide for! Check out their website for more volunteer opportunities: https://centralusa.salvationarmy.org/champaign/volunteer/
Denver, Colorado June 2016
Staten Island, New York June 14th-22nd, 2014
Serving with Mennonite Disaster Service June 14th-22nd, the AMC Youth went on a journey of bringing healing and hope to the discouraged community of Staten Island, New York. You can sense the excitement from the youth because they have willingly decided to meet at 6am on a Saturday morning to start the trip. While there, they will be interacting with the local community while helping to rebuild the neighborhood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U8B_Wz8dCQ
Atlanta, Georgia July 15-2, 2012
Serving with Mennonite Mission Network
During the week of July 15th-21st the AMC youth group served in Atlanta, Georgia with Mennonite Mission Network through its Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection (DOOR) program. The DOOR program works with over 30 different ministries in the city that provide support to the social justice issues in the inner city. The volunteer groups who participate are divided into teams of 4-6 people and given assignments that can include interacting with homeless people at shelters and soup kitchens, making and delivering meals for home-bound AIDS & cancer patients, working with folks with mental and physical disabilities, and sorting food and clothes at distribution centers. During our week of service in Atlanta there were two other youth groups there, which gave us a total of over 70 volunteers for the week. Our youth worked hard on the urban Mennonite farm digging post holes and weeding the garden. We worked at a daycare, packaged over 1000 meals in less than 4 hours, and fed homeless on the street corner.
Photos from out trip to Atlanta!
Elkorn, West Virginia June 13-19, 2010
A Service Adventure with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Serving Through SWAP
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SWAP provides food and lodging for groups who come to the area to serve for a week. SWAP has coordinators living in the area that are responsible for material purchases, work assignments and supervision of the jobs. This organization serves the low-income homeowners of the poorest county in West Virginia. SWAP has been in this area for many years and works with other local service and outreach organizations such as SAFE. Stop Abusive Family Environments (SAFE) owns the house that SWAP participants stay at for their week of service and many of the work projects at the Elkhorn location are received from the SAFE program. The group from Arthur Mennonite spent the week working on four different job sites. One home was re-shingled and another received a totally new roof because of the severe leaks in the old one. Some of the others in the group spent time mudding drywall and painting. There was also a small room addition put on a house that included building walls and setting the rafters. The homeowners were very appreciative of the help from Arthur Mennonite and continually expressed their gratitude. It was a week that was challenging and rewarding for everyone involved and reminded the participants how richly blessed they are.
http://www.mcc.org/SWAP Photos from our trip to West Virginia!
New Orleans, Louisiana June 7-14, 2008
A Service Trip with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) On June 7, the youth group along with their leaders headed to New Orleans to spend a week working at MDS sites in the ninth ward and other parts of the city. The youth worked at four different houses that were all in different stages of construction at the time. Two of the homes were complete rebuilds and the other two were being remodeled. Even though the days were hot and humid much work was accomplished. On one house the roof was shingled and the siding was completed. The second home was almost complete and the youth spent time painting, caulking and finishing the trim inside. The third house was ready for drywall and several youth spent the majority of their week hanging sheetrock. The fourth house needed the old roof torn off and new sheeting put on it.