Newtown Ecumenical Workcamp Students (N.E.W.S.) are heading to Oakland, Maryland this year to participate in the Group Workcamp Foundation mission.
This year 31 N.E.W.S. youth will be traveling to Oakland, Maryland where they will join 350 other students from across the country for the week of June 28 through July 4. These are youth who may have never made a bed or dried a dish at home, yet for a week during their summer break will sleep on the floor of a school and perform needed home repairs for the elderly, the disabled, and the disadvantaged. Their work will include painting, building, repairing, or replacing porches, wheelchair ramps, steps, and walls. After a long day of this work, they will return to the school covered with paint, dirt, tar, band-aids, and satisfaction in the knowledge that they actually can make a difference ini another person’s life.
On Sunday, March 22, 2009, the N.E.W.S. representatives from NUMC (Tami, Maggie, and Caitlin) will be passing the “hard hat,” requesting your donation(s) to supplement the cost of the mission trip.
The N.E.W.S. team will be having a fundraiser Breakfast on Saturday April 4, 2009 from 8:30 A.M. to 11:30 A.M. at Roberto’s Restaurant, 505 Main Street in Monroe. NUMC is sponsoring a table for the event and you are more than welcome to join us in supporting our Workcamp youth. For a seat, please call Pastor Mel (426-9998) or e-mail him via the contact form no later than March 11th.
Checks should be made payable to “NCC WORKCAMP”
