Student Ministry - May 2019
Dear Church Family,
The Student Ministry is gearing up for missions this summer and fall, and I wanted you to have the opportunity to know about what we will be doing and a new way that you can partner with us!
The High School Mission Trip is June 2-8. We will be partnering with New Life Church in Huntington, IN to help them with their outreach ministry to the homeless and to other areas of their community. We will serve daily at their Meal Ministry center, and we will plan on doing a Bible Club during that week to help reach families. This will give our students many opportunities to share the gospel directly with individuals who need it.
Our Middle School Mission Week will be July 29 - August 2. We plan to host two Bible Clubs in the mornings and then do service projects in the afternoons right here in Evansville. We will have Student Leaders help guide the Middle Schoolers as they lead games, teach crafts, serve hard, and share the gospel with others. This is one great way that the students get to serve both in our community and in the church.
Finally, we are sending some students on our first International Mission Trip to Jamaica! This trip is an adult and student trip that will connect with churches in Jamaica to help minister to their communities as well as taking care of any renovation needs they have that we can meet. This will be an eye-opening experience for our students as they will witness first-hand the need for the life-changing power of the gospel in Jamaica’s culture.
In the past we have hosted a BBQ Fundraiser to help the cost of our missions endeavors, but we will unfortunately not be able to do that this year. So the Lord has led us to do an exciting new fundraiser that will raise nearly twice the amount as that of the BBQ Fundraiser. We simply need you, our church family, to partner with us to make this happen.
For the month of May there will be a table set up in the lobby that will have 100 envelopes on it. Each envelope will have a number on it from 1 to 100. The goal is for us as a church to fill every envelope with the money value of its corresponding number. People can take an envelope, put the amount of money that is indicated by the envelope’s number inside it, and place it in the locked dropbox we will have in the lobby. So if you wanted to partner with us financially and wanted to donate $10, then you would simply take the envelope with the number 10 on it, place $10 in it, and place it in the dropbox. If you wanted to donate $50 then you would take the envelope with the 50 on it, etc. While this fundraiser will not fully fund all our mission trips, it will put a big dent in the money students will have to raise in order to serve.
I first want to ask you to please partner with our students by praying for them. Would you pray that they would finish the school year well and be prepared for all that the Lord has in store for them this summer. And secondly, I want to ask you to consider participating in this fundraiser. All it will take is for you to pray about and pick a number between 1 and 100, and then give that amount of money for the express goal of serving and proclaiming the gospel.
Sincerely,
Brian Van Doren
