NEW WILMINGTON MISSION CONFERENCE UPDATE
This year we have 12 people going to the conference in July in Pennsylvania. Erin Simpson, Carley Stauche, Caitlyn Marr, Brianna Arendt and Meredith Gesler will be junior high delegates. Mary Godsell and Griffin Simpson will be high school delegates. Luke Bennewitz will be a counselor for high school age boys. Betty Marr, Jodi Godsell, Mike Godsell and Roger Woehl will be the adult delegates/drivers.
The delegates are responsible for the cost of the camp, which is $290.00 for each youth. Milwaukee Presbytery has camp scholarships available for youth for up to half of the camp cost which the kids have all applied for this year. Several of the kids worked last fall doing odd jobs for people in the church and were able to put money toward their camp fees. Thank you for giving the kids the opportunity to work to help defray their cost.
Forest Park Church covers the cost of transportation each year. This year, having 12 delegates attend conference means that we will need to rent 2 mini-vans for the week. We have been doing fundraisers throughout the year to pay for the cost of the rentals and the gas needed to get to Pennsylvania. We sold decorative pumpkins in Sept/Oct., wooden Christmas trees during the Christmas season and golf toss games throughout the year. The mission committee recently helped by making and selling recipes-in-a-jar to help us. Your response to these fundraisers has been wonderful, but we still need your help. At this point we are $750.00 short of our goal of getting to the conference.
There are ways that you can help us:
1.
Help sponsor a delegate’s travel cost ($62.50).
2.Donate individually wrapped and in their original packaging, full sized bars of soap for the Hygiene Kits for the Church World Service project. We will be taking them with us to the conference; our goal is 300 bars of soap.
New Wilmington Mission Conference held July 18 – 25, 2009, in New Wilmington, PA (on the campus of Westminster College).
