2012 Short Term Missions

San Carlos, AZ for Current 9^th – 12^th Graders:

(Spring Break)

We’ll fly to Phoenix and drive to the San Carlos Apache Reservation. During our week away, we’ll work side by side with local families and Amor Ministries to build (from the ground up!) simple housing for families in need of shelter.  “Home” during our stay will be tents pitched at the Amor Campsite.  Nights will be spent around a campfire, under the stars. Not your typical spring break, but all the peanut butter sandwiches you could ever want and an opportunity to serve you will never forget!

Dates: March 17^th – March 23^rd

Price:  $975     Deposit: $150

Register online now OR download Spring Break Registration form

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Alaska Trip for Graduating Seniors:

We’ll make our way by planes and ferries to Hoonah, Alaska. Meaning “village by the cliff”, Hoonah is a small fishing village with a population of 850. Most of the population is made up of native Alaskans of the Tlingit group. Last year, an immensely meaningful connection was made by helping with community projects, and we are thrilled to continue our relationship. We’ll help out in the community as well as experience some of the fun and breath-taking activities Alaska has to offer.

Dates:  June 6th – 13th

Price:  $975     Deposit: $150

Register online now OR download Alaska Registration form

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The Great Escape for Rising 7^th and 8^th Graders:

Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee is the location for the Junior High Great Escape – the oldest middle school youth conference in the country.   During the week on campus, rising 7^th and 8^th graders will enjoy outdoor games and activities, fun and engaging speakers, worship, great music and self reflection before spending a day rafting the Ocoee River on the way back to Nashville.

Dates:  June 11^th – 16^th

Price:  $550     Deposit: $150

Register online now OR download Great Escape Registration form

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New Orleans Mission Trip for Rising 9^th – 12^th

Graders:

Join your friends for a week of missions in the unique southern city of New Orleans, rich with American South, European and Caribbean influences.  Though Hurricane Katrina was five years ago, residents are still fighting their way back from its devastation.  During our time there, we’ll do a variety of work such as demolition, rebuilding, outdoor yard and park cleanup and relational work with adults and children.  Throughout the week we’ll also enjoy some of the sights, foods and opportunities that make New Orleans the special place it is.

Dates:  June 15^th – 23^rd for Rising Seniors only

June 17^th – 23^rd for Rising 9^th – 11^th Graders

Price:  $800     Deposit: $150

Register online now OR download New Orleans Registration form

Puerto Penasco Mission

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For information about scholarships, please contact Katy Miller at 298-9570 or kmiller(at)fpcnashville.org

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Youth Missions Philosophy and Goals

The Youth Missions program at First Presbyterian Church is designed to go beyond providing specific service opportunities with a focus on helping our youth become people who will continue to live out a lifestyle of servanthood. We seek to take them out of their comfortable environment so that they will experience the radical, joyful alternative of investing their lives in serving in places where their current and future investment will be needed most. This investment almost always multiplies back to the teenagers, their families and the church.

Our missions program is structured to provide a youth conference for our middle school youth to reinforce their foundational relationship with Jesus.  Older youth participate in hands-on building project trips in both domestic and international locales. The trips are lead by parent volunteers in concert with youth staff and are designed to achieve the following goals:

Goal 1: A “great cloud of witnesses” surrounds every student participating in an FPC youth mission.

Goal 2: Youth mission opportunities will serve as a means of equipping and motivating parents of FPC youth to provide intentionally for the Christian nurture of their children.

Goal 3: Youth mission opportunities will build church leaders by having older youth serve as youth leaders on mission trips for younger students.

Goal 4: A strong majority of students who graduate from the FPC youth ministry will continue to live out a lifestyle of servanthood.

We believe that youth missions is a critical component of our goal to develop our youth into exceptional Godly men and women of integrity who will transform their homes, their schools, their churches, their workplaces, and their worlds for Christ. We invite you to explore the places we visit and serve as we carry out God’s command to “Love each other as I have loved you.” John 15:17