This year I took seven amazing young people to Cedar Rapids Iowa to work on the BRIGHTEN project. We worked scraping and painting houses for residents in the Wellington Heights neighborhood. It was a lot of hard work but VERY rewarding! Way to go: Katie Shepherdsen, Kiley Barton, Haley Barton, Tyler Herricks, Zack Pigorsch, Greysun Lenser and Alexis Stika! Thank you to Terry Stika for chaperoning with me!

Here we are at our first service activity harbesting radishes and beans at the Kane Street Community Garden

A great kick off to the 2009/2010 Youth Ministry Program!

On July 12th-17th Taylor Winger, Meredith Knowels, Jessica Schumacker, Greysun Lenser, and Dylan along with their chaperons Kristin Johnson and Terry Stika traveled to Cedar Rapids Iowa to work on the still much needed flood relief from the floods of 2008.