We have been blessed with the chance to be in student ministry for the last 15 years. One of the greatest blessings has come to us through mobilizing the church in missions.
We are in need of mission trips during Spring break and Summer vacations. The need is two-fold in that we need help in preparing our campus and we need help reaching our neighbors.
The Tampa Project has begun to create a strategy to reach the community first and that is through mobile VBS (vacation Bible school) camps. We are targeting local apartment complexes and taking a VBS to them. With portable tents, crafts, music, and churches coming to help us, we believe this can be a viable relationship builder.
How would it work? Each church would be reponsible to implement the VBS during the morning hours of 9:00 AM- 12:00 PM. You would spend your time reaching youth - K-5th grade. Classes would be split into smaller groups and would experience worship, teaching, crafts, refreshments, and recreation.
The afternoon's, church teams would spend at the church campus. There is plenty to be done from landscaping to decorating the children's areas. Other options will include some city work within Tampa and will be at your discretion
For more information on how to get in on this trips, contact Danny Schaffner directly at 217.816.3638.
Quick facts:
Cost would be $40-50 a day (special rates for adults who bring student trips)
Includes housing, meals, transportation, and supplies
Groups will experience all the aspects of mission and partnering in Tampa
We will have specific worship and devotional times
Each group will have a specific schedule
The church building can house up to 50 at a time
We can take more than one group at a time
Any personal recreation to Busch Gardens, Disney World, Yankees games, will be at your own expense.
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