Early Bird Registration Due by December 4

This summer’s youth work trip will take us to Philadelphia, PA to serve with City Service Missions (CSM). The early bird registration was originally due December 1, but we are extending the deadline to Wednesday, December 4 in order to allow as many families as possible to take advantage of this discounted rate. Registration for the trip is now open and can be found here by scrolling down the page and clicking on the box "register for a trip." The $80 deposit can then be paid online here. If you need finanical assistance to make the trip possible for your student, please contact Pastor Keseley. We never want cost to keep a student from participating. If you have any questions, please contact Jon.

Who: current 8th-12th grade students

When: June 21-26, 2019

Where: Philadelphia, PA with City Service Missions (CSM)

Cost: $275 (if registered before Dec. 4), $350 (if registered before Feb. 1) or $400 any time after (Financial assistance is always available, so just talk with Pastor Keseley if that would be helpful)

Here are further details:

We will attend worship together at the 8:45 a.m. service on Sunday morning, June 21, and then leave immediately following the service. We will come Friday night, June 26.

While in Philadelphia we will be staying in CSM's housing. There will be shared sleeping (multiple rooms with bunk beds, and leaders will be separate from  students) and bathroom facilities in accordance with our child protection policy.

We will be working for a group called City Service Missions (CSM), which is a short term mission organization that partners with local ministries, food pantries, summer camp and other great organizations. CSM works to give churches an opportunity to help partner with organizations in ways that allows the ministry to keep going after we are gone. It will be an amazing trip where we get to do some hard work, meet amazing people, experience life in the city, and eat delicious ethnic food. 

During the week we are serving we will visit two community partner sites every day. We will go to one in the morning, take a lunch break and then visit the second site. At the end of the day we will have dinner at a local ethnic restaurant (Indian, Mexican, Vietnamese, Cuban, Middle Eastern, etc.). The night ends with a team debriefing. One day we will have free to explore Old Town Philadelphia where the famous Liberty Bell is located!

An $80 deposit is due at the time of registration, which will be credited toward the total cost of the trip. Please fill out the registration online and then pay the deposit either electronically through the church website here or bring a check to church. The trip cost is inclusive of all costs except meals during travel and incidental expenses. The total per student cost of the trip, including travel, is much more than we are asking families to pay. We will have several fundraising events leading up to the trip in which we will ask the students and families to participate.