|
PC(USA) Young Adult Volunteer appears on CNN
By Linda B. Valentine
Executive Director, General Assembly Mission Council
|
 A national television audience learned this week what many of us have known for a long time-our Young Adult Volunteer (YAV) program changes lives. One of our recently returned YAVs, Shelvis Smith-Mather, shared his inspiring story during a CNN interview Sunday morning. He told CNN that his faith was strengthened by seeing the African church at work in the face of poverty, conflict and other pressing problems. "It's important to know that in the midst of the tragedy there's a whole lot of hope," he said. "There are a number people who are doing amazing works for God there and engaging in these issues, and that's encouraging." Keep reading. |
Welcome to OSSS II!
Watch the YouTube video of last year’s event:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP_YOnD6FKA
Download OSSS flyer here: OSSS2 FLYER.pdf
Download OSSS Leader’s Tally here: OSSS2 Leader Tally.pdf
Download Release Form here: OSSS Release Form.pdf
Download HFHNCC Insurance Waiver here: HFHNCC Insurance Waiver.pdf
Download HFHNCC Youth Insurance Waiver here: HFHNCC Youth Insurance Waiver.pdf
Download HFHNCC Sexual Harassment Policy here: HFHNCC Sexual Harassment Policy.pdf
SUPPLY LIST:
Hospitality supplies: (Red Clay, Hanover)
- Coffee
- REGULAR tea bags (not green tea, earl gray, etc., etc.)
- Sugar
- Powdered creamer
Paper goods: (Westminster, Limestone)
- Bathroom tissue
- Facial tissue
- Paper towels
- Napkins
Cleaning supplies: (First & Central, Trinity)
- Dish soap
- Bleach
- Disinfectant
- Bathroom cleaners
- General household cleaners
Hygiene items: (Calvary, New Castle,)
- Soap
- Shampoo
- Deodorant
- Toothpaste
- Tooth brushes
- Lotion
- Hand sanitizer
Non-perishable food (Concord, Elsmere)
Welcome to an OSSS-some experience for your congregation's youth, and for our community! We are so grateful for your interest and commitment to participating in this year's ONE SHOT SERVICE SUNDAY II on Sunday October 25, 2009. At the start, here are some things we want you to know:
- We are thrilled and grateful for your participation, whether you bring 1 kid or 21. Particularly for our smaller congregations, this is a great experience to engage with other church youth. So don't worry if you only have 1 or 2 kids --- in fact, encourage it all the more!
- We have 10 participation congregations this year! They are Red Clay Creek, Calvary, First & Central, Elsmere, Trinity, Westminster Wilmington, Concord, Hanover, Limestone, and New Castle!
- With that many churches, the reality is that we will have to limit ourselves --- to the first 100 kids (and corresponding adults in the 5:10 ratio). So don't delay in registering!
- About those forms.....Leaders will receive flyers, tally sheets, and release forms via snail mail by September 1. These forms are also available for download above.
- About those work sites..... We're very excited about adding Friendship House as one of our OSSS community ministry partners! We'll send OSSS teams to various men's and women's shelters, Andrew's Place/Women's Day Center, Clothing Bank, Urban Promise and (also new this year) Habitat for Humanity!
- Donations - we've asked for a participation donation of $50/congregation. That can be sent at any time before the September 28 registration deadline. Checks should be made payable to First & Central, marked OSSS, and sent to the attention of Jenny Warren, First & Central Presbyterian Church, 1101 Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19801. Other donations (food, cleaning supplies, etc.) will be determined after further contact with our community ministry partners --- but know that your kids from your congregation will be asked to donate one type of item (i.e., Calvary and Concord will bring cleaning supplies --Windex and sponges). Stay tuned on that one.
- Lastly, a word about what to expect. Some of you have participated in week long work camps and accomplished great things. This is a different kind of service project. No one, not even the Extreme Makeover Home Edition team, can build a house in 3 hours. Our goal is to engage youth in making a connection with a community ministry, to better understand the need and the response this ministry makes. Shampooing a carpet, or organizing a tool trailer, or planting bulbs or scrubbing kitchen cabinets may not seem like much of an accomplishment --- but it does make a connection. It does make the needs of the poor and the response of the faithful real. And it does get kids -- all of us -- drawn out of ourselves, with our eyes, and our hearts, a bit more open.
- Ok, so this is the real lastly. With our numbers increasing, we who launched this idea in 2008 know that we are going to need some help. We would really like to engage youth leader/church contact people in some of the planning -- ideally, to have one adult leader as a point person for each of our work sites (in addition to the agency staff). We're not talking about a lot of unnecessary meetings -- just one necessary one -- on THURSDAY OCTOBER 8, 7:30 p.m. at CONCORD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND LET US KNOW YOU'LL BE THERE!
So again, welcome to OSSS II ----- it's going to be OSSS-some for all!
Gratefully,
Jenny Warren (First & Central)
Nate Phillips (Red Clay)
Christina Pressley (Concord)
Leadership Development Unit celebrates the diversity of programs experienced by the recipients and reminds campers and sponsoring congregations that we want to hear about your adventures. Please e-mail your stories and photographs to Michelle Woodson at the NCP office at mwoodson@ncpresbytery.org. While email is preferable, you may also mail your info to Michelle at the Presbytery office: 256 Chapman Road, Newark, DE 19702.
Download youth application here: Scholarship Youth application 2009.pdf
Comments (0)
You don't have permission to comment on this page.