April—Dog tag sale
	May—Spaghetti dinner and movie night.
	June—Car wash

Workcamp News - 6/28/07

 From July 21-July 29, 17 youth and adults from Faith Church will travel to Vandalia, Ohio for workcamp. This mission trip will give all an opportunity to serve God by helping others, while also receiving God’s blessing of spiritual growth.  As in the past, we are again offering the congregation the opportunity to share, in a small way, our experience.  We will have a sign up sheet in the welcome hall by the workcamp house for you to sponsor a workcamper.  In return for a pledge of $75, you will become prayer partner with your camper, receive a matching dog tag with your camper’s name on it which we wear all week, and a devotional guide which we will be using during our week away. After the service there will be campers available to answer your questions.  Thank you for all your generous support of our youth!

2007 Workcampers

Emily Cole, Dan Hemberger, Larry Hemberger, Tyler Hill, Stephanie Hutzayluk, Jayme Ingram, Lynn Ingram, Mark Ingram, Jim Lillegard, Andrew Millick, Diane Millick, Leigh Moring, Platte Moring, Will Moring, Christy Smits, Kelly Trop, and Justin Yen

Each year, a group of Faith Presbyterian Church's adventous youth volunteer thier time and talents to help with Work Camp.  The group travels to different cities each year to offer support for home renovations, church programs, and general Christian fellowship.

Parents, do your teenagers complain that they are bored during summer vacation, and going to the mall is getting to be old hat, the pool is just so-so, the arcade doesn't offer enough challenges?  Well, do we have good news for you!  Send the little darling to work camp.  I can guarantee, that they will not be bored and they will be challenged.

Every year a group of fine young people and a few "young at heart" adults of this congregation set off on an exciting adventure in a faraway place, to make new friends, answer the challenges thrown their way, and grow spiritually at a work camp.   Yes, the work can be hard, but what a rush.  When the job is done, the look of gratitude on the face of your resident makes you feel good inside because you accomplished something for a stranger who became a friend.  They trusted you, they let you, a stranger, into their homes and sometimes that in itself is a small miracle.  Many of these people are poor, but proud, and not always happy to let a bunch of strangers help out, but they hate to see you leave at the end of the week.

Work camp is a great place to grow spiritually.  Intellectually, you are challenged to do things you didn't think you could, or would do normally.  You tear down, you build, you paint, you do roofing, you learn to work as a team and share ideas.  You learn from one another, you build friendships that can last a lifetime.

At the end of the day, you get to spend some time reflecting on the day or whatever you want.  But then it's down to some serious spiritual programs that are planned by the work camp staff.  They are fun.  You do a lot of singing.  You hear some real funny stories of things that happened at the various work sites.  You get to hear some real nice human-interest stories also.  Every evening is planned to lead to a climax on Thursday night.  That is the most somber program, the most meaningful, the one where you re-affirm your belief in Jesus Christ as your Savior, that's my favorite program.

We sleep on the floor on an air mattress in a sleeping bag, in a gym or classroom.   The showers don't always have hot water, and the showerheads don't always work right.  The food, during my experience has been good, plentiful and always lots of delicious desserts.

So parents, if you feel that this would be a good growing experience for your teenager by all means let them come to work camp. Work camp is open to all youth age 14 and up.

To be a part of this exciting outreach program, please contact any one of the work camp committee members listed above or directly to the church at faithchurch@faithchurchemmaus.org.