Serving is a very important part of our walk in our Faith at 1 W.Y.M. and we believe that Serving is a part of God’s plan here in our own back yard in Chambersburg ,Somewhere in Pa, Out of State or Internationally. No matter where we Serve for God,we are truly invested to do God’s will no matter where He calls us to go.
COMING IN 2017
Why is it important for Students to go on Mission trips……
1. Mission Trips Bring Youth Groups Together.
If you’ve ever been on a weekend student retreat, you know how that experience can build community. Teenagers ride together, play together, eat together, stay up late together, get up tired together… “Together” is a powerful word. Think of “together” as glue – the more broadly it’s spread, the better a youth group will bond. Mission trips apply “together” to students’ sense of adventure, their desire serve, their relationship with God, their daily experiences, their broken comfort zones and much more (including these things below!).
2. Mission Trips Broaden Perspectives.
Teenagers might be more connected than ever with what’s happening around the world, but have they seen what it’s like to live below the poverty line in small-town America? Or experienced the energy and exhaustion of inner-city living? Or felt the heartbeat of Native America beaten across the taut surface of a drum? Pulling teenagers from their typical context helps them understand that the world is larger that their daily lives would have them believe. By beginning to understand another setting, their own context comes into truer focus.
3. Mission Trips Challenge Comfort Zones.
Beyond broadening perspectives, mission trips demand that teenagers participate. Painting a house, playing with kids, serving a meal, sleeping on an air mattress, experiencing a new culture – these are a few examples of ways comfort zones are crossed. But when coupled with intentional processing and worship, mission trips have the unique ability to challenge students’ comfortable perceptions of God and the world. Faith steps beyond the doors of the church and demands to be applied to real-world living.
4. Mission Trips Empower Students.
God is doing incredible work through the Church. The energy, authenticity, fresh perspective and passion teenagers bring are a vibrant part of that church. Done well, mission trips help students take ownership and initiative. Eyes are opened. Passions are ignited. Possibilities are exposed. Pursuits begin. Mission trips help teenagers see what they are capable of. But first, the Church chooses to believe in the incredible opportunity of being a teenager – not a possibility to be met “someday,” but a boiling potential just waiting to overflow.
5. Mission Trips Create Sacred Space.
The Israelites used to build monuments by throwing together big piles of rocks to point at later and say, “That signifies God’s faithfulness in our nation.” For many teenagers, mission trips represent a time and a place when God worked in and through their lives. More than a mere mountain-top high, these sacred spaces both anchor students in their faith and propel them forward in their relationship with God. Even in times of trouble, teenagers often point toward their mission trip experience and say, “That signifies God’s faithfulness in my life.”
1. Mission Trips Bring Youth Groups Together.
If you’ve ever been on a weekend student retreat, you know how that experience can build community. Teenagers ride together, play together, eat together, stay up late together, get up tired together… “Together” is a powerful word. Think of “together” as glue – the more broadly it’s spread, the better a youth group will bond. Mission trips apply “together” to students’ sense of adventure, their desire serve, their relationship with God, their daily experiences, their broken comfort zones and much more (including these things below!).
2. Mission Trips Broaden Perspectives.
Teenagers might be more connected than ever with what’s happening around the world, but have they seen what it’s like to live below the poverty line in small-town America? Or experienced the energy and exhaustion of inner-city living? Or felt the heartbeat of Native America beaten across the taut surface of a drum? Pulling teenagers from their typical context helps them understand that the world is larger that their daily lives would have them believe. By beginning to understand another setting, their own context comes into truer focus.
3. Mission Trips Challenge Comfort Zones.
Beyond broadening perspectives, mission trips demand that teenagers participate. Painting a house, playing with kids, serving a meal, sleeping on an air mattress, experiencing a new culture – these are a few examples of ways comfort zones are crossed. But when coupled with intentional processing and worship, mission trips have the unique ability to challenge students’ comfortable perceptions of God and the world. Faith steps beyond the doors of the church and demands to be applied to real-world living.
4. Mission Trips Empower Students.
God is doing incredible work through the Church. The energy, authenticity, fresh perspective and passion teenagers bring are a vibrant part of that church. Done well, mission trips help students take ownership and initiative. Eyes are opened. Passions are ignited. Possibilities are exposed. Pursuits begin. Mission trips help teenagers see what they are capable of. But first, the Church chooses to believe in the incredible opportunity of being a teenager – not a possibility to be met “someday,” but a boiling potential just waiting to overflow.
5. Mission Trips Create Sacred Space.
The Israelites used to build monuments by throwing together big piles of rocks to point at later and say, “That signifies God’s faithfulness in our nation.” For many teenagers, mission trips represent a time and a place when God worked in and through their lives. More than a mere mountain-top high, these sacred spaces both anchor students in their faith and propel them forward in their relationship with God. Even in times of trouble, teenagers often point toward their mission trip experience and say, “That signifies God’s faithfulness in my life.”
Youth Beach Retreat/Mission Trip
?Oct 7th to Oct 10th
?Oct 7th to Oct 10th
2016 TEAM JAMAICA
With Great Pleasure I introduce to you the 2016 Youth Team Jamaica Mission Team.
We have been given the opportunity to serve on a short-term mission team to the mountainous region of Jamaica. The team is composed of youth and adult members from my home church youth group. We will be working and ministering at the Regent College of the Caribbean.
from June 10th – June 19th, 2016 in Mandeville, Jamaica
Our Purpose first and foremost reason for going is to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with all those that we will come in contact with. We will be working at the College, where we will be doing many construction projects on their grounds and buildings, delivering food baskets and praying for the family receiving the baskets who are in need in the community, running a afternoon program of “Jesus Adventures” at the college with kids from the community & sharing God’s love with them, and finally we are going to have a Youth Group Night for the local teens to be the Light of Christ.
Our Prayer Needs:
1) That God will open the hearts of the people that we come in contact with.
2) For team unity and safety.
3) That we will be open to what God wants to teach us.
4) That our financial goals will be met.
OUR FINANCIAL NEEDS:
Est. Cost: $1,200 per team member. This covers airfare, ground transportation, housing, food, insurance, and needed materials for all projects. Each team member is responsible for raising 100% of their financial and prayer support.
We are so excited about this trip! Financial support is essential for us going on the trip, but of equal or greater importance is your commitment to pray! Will you please consider sharing this opportunity with us as the Lord leads you, by praying and giving?
If you would like to be involved, please make any checks payable to One Way Youth Ministry, and mail it to our
Director of Youth Ministry:
Daryl Kissinger
4349 Letterkenny Road
Chambersburg Pa, 17201
**Please enclose a note designating the contribution to our credit.
God Bless You.
In Christ,
Slugg
1-10-2016: 2016 JAMAICA TEAM MANDATORY. #1 PLANNING MEETING FROM NOON TO 4PM (LUNCH SUPPLIED) YOUR $100 DOWN PAYMENT IS DUE AT THIS MEETING.
We have been given the opportunity to serve on a short-term mission team to the mountainous region of Jamaica. The team is composed of youth and adult members from my home church youth group. We will be working and ministering at the Regent College of the Caribbean.
from June 10th – June 19th, 2016 in Mandeville, Jamaica
Our Purpose first and foremost reason for going is to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with all those that we will come in contact with. We will be working at the College, where we will be doing many construction projects on their grounds and buildings, delivering food baskets and praying for the family receiving the baskets who are in need in the community, running a afternoon program of “Jesus Adventures” at the college with kids from the community & sharing God’s love with them, and finally we are going to have a Youth Group Night for the local teens to be the Light of Christ.
Our Prayer Needs:
1) That God will open the hearts of the people that we come in contact with.
2) For team unity and safety.
3) That we will be open to what God wants to teach us.
4) That our financial goals will be met.
OUR FINANCIAL NEEDS:
Est. Cost: $1,200 per team member. This covers airfare, ground transportation, housing, food, insurance, and needed materials for all projects. Each team member is responsible for raising 100% of their financial and prayer support.
We are so excited about this trip! Financial support is essential for us going on the trip, but of equal or greater importance is your commitment to pray! Will you please consider sharing this opportunity with us as the Lord leads you, by praying and giving?
If you would like to be involved, please make any checks payable to One Way Youth Ministry, and mail it to our
Director of Youth Ministry:
Daryl Kissinger
4349 Letterkenny Road
Chambersburg Pa, 17201
**Please enclose a note designating the contribution to our credit.
God Bless You.
In Christ,
Slugg
1-10-2016: 2016 JAMAICA TEAM MANDATORY. #1 PLANNING MEETING FROM NOON TO 4PM (LUNCH SUPPLIED) YOUR $100 DOWN PAYMENT IS DUE AT THIS MEETING.
4-2-2016:YOUTH JAMAICA MISSION TRIP “ALL YOU CAN EAT PANCAKE FUNDRAISER BREAKFAST FROM 7AM -10AM
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4-3-2016: 2016 JAMAICA TEAM MANDATORY. #2 PLANNING MEETING FROM NOON TO 4PM (LUNCH SUPPLIED)
RECENT MISSION TRIPS
2015 Jamaica Misson Trip
2015 Youth Jamaica Mission Trip Review
Day #1:Friday We left The Salem Youth Center at 4am with some friends John & Jenn Ross, Corey Weaver and the Steve Forrester our Great Blessing our Bus Driver & Friend to transport One Way Youth Jamaica Bound. All went well and arrived at BWI as expected and on time. Check in also went extremely easy and the departed right on time. 1WYM has arrived early In Jamaica with customs and Immigration went smooth also. Then we loaded up on Mikes Transportation Bus to get on our way to Mandeville and everybody was Great and had a Great trip so far. Stopped for Lunch at “THAT JERK PLACE’ and it was yummy. 1WYM has arrived at our destination after a 3 hour ride no problem. We then stopped at the market for our food for meals for the week. We arrived at the Regent Collage of the Caribbean with our dinner prepared by Chief Dwight Kuntz. What a long and exciting day of travel after a 20 hour day. Then we went called it a night and hit some Shut Eye. Day #2: Saturday God is so Good and Today In Jamaica, After a Good Night Sleep, A great Breakfast prepared by Mindy K, and our Devotion time, It was time to work.God helped us in some Hot Weather. Today at the Collage, We started The Extreme Makeover One Way Youth Ministry Style. We poured concrete walk way again this year which was a blast, painted a two story building and cleaned up the inside of the second floor to prepare to remodel it over the next 4 days for the collage that will be hosting a Conference in the Beginning of 2016.I have to say are Students, Staff, and Chaperones are an amazing group of people who knocked their socks off for God. After dinner we went for Ice Cream and went to a local store. As I sit here with Joyful tears tonight thinking back to a moment tonight in Mandeville where we did some street ministry to a guy named Jason where one of students (Mac) jumped on an opportunity to witness through prayer to a total stranger something that she has been looking forward to do and tonight God ?opened up the door at a Grocery store. God is working In Jamaica and we can’t wait to see what He has planned for us next. Keep our team in your prayers. All the Glory to God. Day #3 Sunday Day #3: Awesome God day from Jamaica Sunday .A time of Church at Salem U.B. Church in Jamaica, fellowship, and a whole lot of family building and fun .No pictures from Sunday more to come after tonight .Please keep us in your prayers Day #4 Monday Day #4: 2015 Jamaica Youth Team. Here we are, already 4 days into the trip and man is God at work in Jamaica. Not much to say cause we have too much we would like to share so I’m going to let the pictures share. Can’t wait to see what God is going to do tomorrow.We are so blessed for the team God put here and I’m blessed for the people that God has placed in our path. All The Glory to God. Day #5 Tuesday Day #5: Wonderful day #5 of Serving in Jamaica today. Lots of work was completed and lots of great things going on. Starting to prepare for the meals we will be taken out to the community on Thursday afternoon and Finalizing the Youth Outreach to the youth in the community this Thursday night with a 1WYM Youth night of Worship, Fellowship and God’s word here at the collage. Keep us in your prayers as we prepare what God has in store for us This week. Check out some of the outstanding awards tonight given out to the team recommended from other team members: “The Princess Necklace Awards” What a great Time Serving God. All the Glory to God. Day #6 Wednesday Day #6: for One Way Youth Ministry and man was it an AMAZING DAY of the hardest work yet on the hottest day yet with the Heat index hitting 104 but through it all we hit some Home Runs for our God by Serving and finishing many of our projects up for God’s Kingdom.We are preparing our hearts tonight for our Community impact Thursday at 2pm and praying for the Youth Outreach at 7pm at the Collage as we Share God’s Word and Share what God has done in our lives and what He can do in others so Please be praying for us. All the Glory To God. Day #7 Thursday Day #7in Jamaica. Can You Say WOW!!! God Is Good. Today we finished up things in the new conference center at the Collage and made 4 sets of Corn Hole for our youth night and the collage. We also went into the community and gave out food bags,Prayed for people and 3 of our youth lead two youth to Christ .Then we went back to the Collage and had a youth night and we had 3 students accept Christ tonight at our your outreach. Can You Say a Big Amen. Never had a trip like this and all the team were praying big things to happen and God showed up and made it happen. Keep the 5 students who accepted Christ today in your prayers as well as our team. Day #8 Friday Day #8: Friday was day #8 for our 1WYM JAMAICA TEAM and was a 4 hour travel day from Mandeville to Montego Bay for some relax and refuel time .We were prayed out by a good friend named Peter and the bus driver stopped at a Jamaica market which was really exciting .After arriving at our hotel, we enjoyed the some fellowship and opportunity to start refueling our Hearts, Minds, and Souls. We have a great God .Please keep in your prayers the 5 youth that accepted Christ Thursday at our communities Outreach activities .All the Glory to God Day #9 Saturday Day#9: Time to refuel and relax at Holiday Inn in Montego bay with some fun and fellowship with some Kiyacking, Wind Surfing, Mini Golf, Tennis, Swimming in the Ocean and pool, Snorkling and just getting refueled with God. Day #10 Sunday Day #10: 8:00am:1WYM will soon be loading and heading home from our awesome time of Serving — traveling to Baltimore, Maryland from Montego Bay, Jamaica Airport. 2015 YOUTH BEACH RETREAT
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