Pennsylvania youth group travels to Vinton to help with clean-up project
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Pennsylvania youth group travels to Vinton to help with clean-up project
The group of 21 volunteers, ranging from seventh to twelfth graders, found out about Vinton through a global missionary organization named Praying Pelican. The group spent six nights and seven days down south, and they have had quite the experience.Morning Star’s worship leader says the church is appreciative of the help and hopes to see the youth group again someday. The youth director of the Pittsburgh ministry said this project was a little different from others they’ve taken on before.
Dutilh Student Ministry flew down to SWLA last Saturday and have been lending a helping hand to the Morning Star Baptist Church in Vinton.
They have planted flower beds, repainted a skatepark, helped with the construction of a new sanctuary, and more.
The group of 21 volunteers, ranging from seventh to twelfth graders, found out about Vinton through a global missionary organization named Praying Pelican, who handled the logistics of the trip.
Heather Shoffstall, the youth director of the Pittsburgh ministry, said this project was a little different from others they’ve taken on before.
“I think the thing that is different about this trip to others is the community that we’ve been able to be part of and talk to and get to know, and hear their faith stories and hear about the resilience of this community; it’s been actually really awesome,” Heather Shoffstall, youth director of Dutilh Student Ministry, said.
The group spent six nights and seven days down south, and they have had quite the experience.
“Hot. It’s hot here, it’s just…it’s great,” Morgan Chapman, Pittsburgh, PA youth member, said.
“The experience here was really amazing. It was really fun. We did prayer driving, where we drove around and got to pray for different areas. It was really cool to get to see just how different it was from where we live in Pittsburgh,” one youth member, named Isaac Parkinson, said.
Morning Star’s worship leader says the church is appreciative of the help and hopes to see the youth group again someday.
“It feels really great to see how the young adults are growing—the teens knowing that they can do it Christ’s way and not the world’s way and that they can still have fun while being a Christian,” said worship leader Jamiah Budwine.
To learn more about the global missionary organization, the Praying Pelican’s website is www.ppm.org/#gsc.tab=0.
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