Time: 9am-4:30pm Participant Cost: $10 Project Description: We will be painting 8 bathrooms at Blackshear Elementary School in the 3rd Ward. They want to have a field day open house and need this work done to the bathrooms in order to make them look acceptable. Age range of participants: 6th-12th Max number of Participants: 40-50 Transportation: vans to and from the lyf center to the work sites Adult Volunteers Needed: 5-8
Other details: - Students need to be at the LYF Center at 9:30 Am for debrief. - Lunch is provided. - Girls need to bring Paint Brushes - Guys need to bring paint rollers. - Leaders need to bring Paint scrapers.
Register: HERE (deadline to register is March 11th)
Easter Egg Hunt | April 7th
Time: 8am-1pm Project Description: Partnering with our church effort to coordinate Easter Egg Hunts in the Ft. Bend area. Supplying volunteer and leadership help to specific hunts. Age range of participants: Grades 6-12 Max number of Participants: 50-70 Adult Volunteers Needed: 20
*** this project qualifies as one of the local projects needed to participate in either the LEAD Houston, Yucatan or Mozambique trip.
LEAD Houston (Servant Leadership Experience) | June 18th-22nd
Date: June 18-22 Requirements: Must be 7th-12th grade (unless otherwise designated), have a heart for missions, be willing to work hard, have transportation to LYF Center, have served in at least 1 qualifying LYF local mission projects during the previous school year. Project Description: This is a 5 day local mission project that requires a high degree of commitment, physical labor, and leadership development. Students sleep at the LYF center for a solid week. They do a variety of local mission project work including home repair, block parties, food distribution, and other high impact projects. Other activities during the week including large group worship and teaching sessions, a fun day at the beach, and other fun leadership challenging projects. # of Participants: 90-125 Potential Cost: $175 - $250
Requirements: Must be 11th-College grade (10th grade with special permission), have served in at least 2 qualifying LYF local mission projects during the previous school year, have served in at least 1 local LEAD week in the last 2 years, have been overseas for a mission trip in the last 2 years (preferably with LYF), and have filled out the missions application and been approved by the LYF Missions Team through the family interview process and the SCBC Missions Director. Project Description: This is a 13 day mission project that requires a high degree of commitment, physical labor, cultural sensitivity and leadership. Students will travel Mozambique, Africa. We will partner with the SCBC local missionary to do service projects in the town of the local church. Projects will involve community service work, and an English teaching and sport camp. In addition the team will put together an evangelism strategy involving chronological Bible storying to witness to the local community. # of Participants: 10-15 Potential Cost: $3000 - $3200
