Upcoming Trips and Projects

Our assistance will continue to be needed in Northern Ohio for some time, specifically in Bucyrus, but may expand to other areas as needed. Volunteer opportunities are available most weekends and during the week and accommodations are available for those traveling some distance to work there.

November 11-November 17, Team 29 will be working in Chalmette, near New Orleans. We will leave after church Sunday from Westerville Christian. An organizational meeting will be held there as well next Tuesday, October 16 at 6:30pm. Here is where to find us:

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Christmas time trips have been very popular the last two years of Katrina relief work. I am planning two tentative trips for the week before Christmas and the week between Christmas and New Years. One would leave around Saturday, December 15 and return Saturday, December 22. The other would leave Wednesday morning, December 26 and return on January 1 as we did last year.

Spring Break can be amazing this year! All these Columbus area schools, maybe more, are off the same week in 2008, March 22-30:

Columbus, Hilliard, Dublin, Worthington, Olentangy, Westerville, Big Walnut, Gahanna, South Western, Grandview Heights, Hamilton, Groveport, Canal Winchester, Pickerington, Bexley, Whitehall, and Tree of Life.

Only 3 districts adjoining Columbus are not off this week:

• Upper Arlington is off the week before.
• New Albany-Plain is the following week.
• Reynoldsburg is April 5-13.

I’d like to plan a massive youth oriented trip to New Orleans or Bayou La Batre for that week. We could conceivably send hundreds of volunteers! The work would be reconstruction of houses, community centers, and other efforts to support churches and rehabitation of houses in the area still recovering from Katrina.

Special challenges for youth trips like this involve:

• Getting enough youth sponsors to go.
• Having enough skilled adults to keep the kids productive.
• Coordinating transportation.

To put such a trip together, I’ll need help from you to publicize and staff the trip. We’ll also need to be recruiting adults with construction skills and tools to help make this trip productive for the kids.

Please prayerfully consider how you can arrange your schedule to support any of these activities.

To inquire about, or join any of these trips, please call me or email me at the link on the right of the blog.