Mission
Project Ideas:
Selecting a mission project
To be successful, a project should be achievable in the time
you have alloted to it. The project(s) your youth group chooses
will depend on several factors. How much time do you have to
spend on a project? What will be the cost of the project? What
resources are available to you? Do you possess the necessary
skills for the job? Can you be successful at what you have chosen
to do? Completing a project in a satisfactory manner is important.
Here are some ideas.
1. Plan a disaster response program for you church or community.
Using the chart you prepared in Module 2, get in touch with
organizations that respond to disasters. Ask several of the
organizations to come to your church on a given evening to set
up a display, do a demonstration, or give a talk on the work
they do to respond to disastrous situations.
2. Take a tour or you hospital's Emergency Service Unit. Discuss
what you have learnd about the services available in your community
if there were a disaster.
3. With the help of youth leaders, pastors, and counslers,
plan a Peer Counseling Training Program. Recruit friends and
other students to participate in this training.
4. Send for the Family Disaster Supplies Kit from the Federal
Emergency managment Agency, P.O> Box 70274, Washington DC
20024. Get you own family and other families in your church
and community involved in planning for a disaster.
5. Help to sponsor and organize a program for your community
on ten stress and suicide. Arrange for a panel of speakers (doctors,
physchologist, ministers, guidance counselors, etc.) from the
community who can talk about the problem and what the community
is prepared to do to prevent or deal with teen suicide.
6. Conduct a Hazard Hunt in you community. Use the instructions
found on page 38 of the Leader's Manual. Contact local officals
to find out how they have planned to deal with emergencies that
could result from such hazards. Send the results of your hunt
to a local newspaper of television station.
7. Arrange to visit the state police barracks. Find out where
the most dangerous places are in your community. Where do the
accidents occur? What plans are there for making these places
more safe?
8. Help put together clean-up kits, health kits, or food kits
for the Church World Service disaster response. If you write
to CWS P.O. Box 968, Elkhart, IN 46515, they will send you the
information you will need t prepare the kits. The Church World
Service Hotline is 1-800-456-1310.
9. Contact you church conference or presbytery office to find
out what rebuilding projects may be going on in the area. Or
contact Habitat for Humanity to learn what projects they are
sponsoring. Plan a visit and talk to some volunteers. Take a
video or still photos and report back to your local church about
he visit. Find out how your group can become involved i one
of their projects.
10. Find out from you denomination's headquarters or Church
World Service what work the church does in disaster response
efforts. Plan a mission trip or work camp to an area of this
country or another country that has experienced the detestation
of flood, earthquake, hurricane, or other natural disaster.
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