Ok so I am officially quite happy! Friday evening I was speaking with a teacher at the Adventist school in McMinnville, one thing led to another and we have decided on a youth mission project for the summer. There is this church up here in a little town called Hopewell that is in disrepair in more ways than one, if you know what I mean.
The Church building is actually the oldest church in the conference at 103 as it was the first Adventist church built in the state. Because of it's age it is rather run down and needs some paint, drywall here and there and a new roof. It also needs a bit of concrete work.
The other form of disrepair is that of it's membership. There are currently less than 15 members on the books, most of witch are quite "seasoned."
So the plan is to invade the church for a number of weeks with teens from local churches and revitalize from the inside out... In other words we will not only make the building look better but we hope to add to it's membership through evangelistic type work....
I will write more as more plans are made but please keep this in your prayers!
