Each year we engage in short term missions experiences as a Senior High group & Junior High Group. This sometimes comes as week long experiences during the summer months, we will also engage in daily missions in and around the Hendersonville & Nashville metro area.
Senior High Mission Experience
The tradition for the Senior High Mission has been to support the people of the appalachian mountains through ASP (Appalachian Service Project). This past summer, due to the extreme levels of destruction to the gulf region from Hurricane Katrina. The youth felt a need to respond. We felt our years of missions helped to prepare us for this past summer that we are going back one more summer and beginning a rotation system to our destinations for our various missions experiences.
Junior High Mission Experience
With the tradition of a Junior High Experience beginning in 2006 we had a great time working with S.O.S (Service Over Self) in urban Memphis. We will move the Junior High Mission Experience around with a similar rotation system as our Seniors Highs to give a balanced and rounded missional perspective.
Senior High Mission Experience 2008
For our summer of 2008 we will be heading back to our roots of Appalachia. We will be looking to fill a group of 42 youth, young adults, and adults to make an impact on the appalachia area. We will be working through ASP as we have in years past. Dates are July 12/13th - 19th. We will be located in Breathitt County Kentucky.
Currently the plan is to pack & leave Saturday evening to break our trip up by a few hours. If we can organize the connections then we will take Sunday morning to check out a mountain top removal site as part of our becoming missionaries within the community.
Because of the nature of working with ASP we will be more stringent on getting registered on time for the mission experience & training as a team. Deposit and Paperwork are due March 9th, see the Missions FAQ sheet for more info.
The cost for missions experience this summer is $300. This covers registration, transportation, everything ASP offers, and hotel stay-over. You will want to bring extra money for food on the road, the daily drink or ice cream stops, and ASP t-shirt or souvenir.
Junior High Mission Experience 2008
In our third ever Jr. High Mission Experience we will again work through the mininstry of Camp Lookout. Camp Lookout is based on Lookout Mountain and is part of the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church camping program. We will participate in their Junior High Service Camp which is a mix of service work to the camp, service to the homeless, helping the community churches, aiding the widows in the community, and all the fun that can happen at camp (swimming, creek stomping, caving, etc).
Our dates for the 2008 trip will be from June 2nd - 6th. We will leave the church parking lot approximately at 6:00am on Monday the 2nd and return around 2:00pm on Friday the 6th.
Cost will be $200 dollars which includes your meals and activities while at camp. You will need to bring some money for food on the road & some camp memorabilia.
Deposit & Paperwork are due on March 9th. See FAQ sheets for more information. Download the "CampLookout" forms & the FAQ Sheets for specific Info & Required Paperwork from Missions Forms.
Missions Forms
Senior Mission Experience 2009
It might seem strange to start planning for 2009, but in this case, we are. We will be taking on our first out of country missions excursion to Eleuthera Bahamas. We are working with Bahamas Methodist Habitat under the direction of Abe, a fellow middle tennessean. He has been working with BHM for about three or four years (depending on when you read this). Our dates will be June 24th through 30th. This is Wednesday to Tuesday, which allows for a less expensive flight than flying on a weekend. Things may change, but we will most likely be staying at a methodist retreat center in James Cistern.
Each participant will need to have a current passport in order to participate. So go ahead and apply now. Passports cannot be aquired at the last minute. The cost for the trip will be around $800 (final price will depend largely on the plane tickets). If you wish you may start to deposit money for small payments for your participant fees at the beginning of July. Look for a scheduled paperwork and training sessions in the fall.