AUSTIN
TEXAS
MIDDLE SCHOOL WEEK OF HOPE
JUNE 30 - JULY 4, 2024
TRINITY CHAPEL BIBLE CHURCH
Week of Hope
Week of Hope are community service mission trips for youth. Students come alongside seasoned local ministries and nonprofits to make a lasting difference through meaningful community service. They'll learn Christ-like empathy and compassion for others as they meet the spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of disadvantaged children, youth, and adults.
As students serve in the name of Jesus, they’ll develop friendships with the people they serve, with other teams, with their own youth group, and, most importantly, with Jesus.
Each service project is the result of a partnership we build with organizations, ministries, and individuals who live, work, and serve in each community. Projects might include providing meals to the homeless, tutoring struggling children from low-income families, helping to lead a day camp for kids, working with disabled children, or sharing stories with a lonely elderly person in an assisted-living facility. Our hope is that you walk away knowing more about what our partners do year-round, and your role in the big picture.
The fun doesn't stop after your day of service.
The party continues with themed days, movie nights, lip-sync battles, bedtime stories, group games, and much more!
Safety
- 1 adult (21 or older) for every 5 participants that are under 21 years of age.
- Participants that are 18 and older be screened and background-checked by their church and approved by church pastor.
- Every staff member has been screened, background-checked, and reference checked by Group Mission Trips.
- We have separate shower times designated for participants that are 17 and younger from those that are 18 and older.
- We review safety procedures at camp.
- Participants are not required to do any work that they consider unsafe.
- Although we do serve in needy areas, we require crews to stay together at all times. No one should ever be left alone and all participants are back at the lodging facility by their designated check in time.
- Group Mission Trips' staff visit the crews every day so they are aware of where a crew is working and any issues in the area.
- Each crew will have a small first aid kit and a bigger one for every vehicle.
Cost
$400
A $50 non-refundable deposit by Jan 31. Spots are limited, so don't wait!
How You'll Serve
As you enter into the lives of others and build relationships with the people of Austin, you’ll experience God working through you at projects such as:
- Therapeutic Horse Center: Participants will get to help provide hope, healing, and therapy by helping our special needs friends
- Home Repair for Disabled Veterans: Participants provide help in painting and yard work for families of disabled veterans. Enjoy listening to their stories!
- Youth Program: Participants will provide hands-on, active, and engaged moments to at-risk youth.
- Senior Day Center: Participants will get to liven up their day with games, reading, movies, bible discussions, crafts, and “seniorcise”!
- Soup Kitchen: We are partnering with a kitchen that provides meals to 400 people every day! Participants will have the opportunity to serve a meal here! and help in the pantry.
Lodging
Up to 100 participants will stay at a local church. There will be a separate boy’s hall and girl’s hall, a space for meals, adequate bathrooms and showers, and a space for the programs.
Participants need to bring twin-size air mattresses, pillows, sleeping bags or other bedding to sleep on floors. Youth groups are assigned to sleeping rooms together, gender separate. Sleeping rooms may be shared with other youth groups, depending on the size of groups and the size of the room.
Program
Our host, Group Mission Trips team leads a Jesus-centered program experience 4 times each day; morning and evening programs, crew devotions, and youth group devotions (included in participant handbooks). Programs are designed so that you don't just look to a stage, but look to Jesus.
They’ve created a chapel setting at each that allows for meaningful encounters with Jesus and fellowship with one another in an intimate environment. Their staff will lead interactive, relevant, and Scripture-based teaching daily.
Schedule
For more info from our host visit:
https://groupmissiontrips.com/trip-types/community-service/austin-texas
SUNDAY - JUNE 30
12:15- Depart TCBC
4:30 p.m - Dinner gathering
6:30 p.m - Kick-off program.
8:00 p.m - Devotions
11 p.m - Lights-out
MONDAY - WEDNESDAY
7–7:45 a.m - Breakfast and pack lunches
8:45–3 p.m - Serve at project sites.
5:30 p.m - Dinner gathering
8:00 p.m - Evening program.
11 p.m - Lights-out
THURSDAY - JULY 4
7–8 a.m - Breakfast
12:30 p.m. - Arrive at TCBC