So I'm taking the youth of my church on a mission trip to Crownpoint, New Mexico! I have 4 adults committed to going with us and have to get the actual youths to sign up yet. I have been writing letters furiously, planning information breakfasts and trying to think of creative fundraisers to help get us there and back again.
I have never actually been on a missions trip before, let alone plan one for a group, but we're going through a mission trip organization, so at least I don't have to plan the actual mission itself. Whew!! I'm super excited about going. We'll be working on the homes of elderly people on a Navajo Reservation there, fixing things and installing running water and bathroom facilities! It sounds like an exciting challenge to me, and I think that the youth are going to be able to learn a lot through the whole process as well as be able to give a lot of themselves to these needful people.
So here is my best effort at being creative. If it works, I'll post a picture of what I manage to do.
Since we're going to be doing plumbing projects, I bought a couple of new plungers (the cheap red kind) and I'm planning on sanding the handle so that it is super smooth, then burning some words into it (like: St. Luke Youth Missions 2008) and then staining it with polyurethane to make it shiny. Then, if it works, I'll have the youth make these and sell them to people in the congregation and elsewhere as a fundraiser for our trip!
The missions organization is sending me a booklet of other ideas so hopefully we don't have to rely upon my crazy schemes.........
:) Here's to the plunger project! Cheers!
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