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SPECIAL
Children from North Springs United Methodist Church visited
Alabama in June 2012 to work in the community repairing homes.
obviously, your love of Christ with
them,” Murphy said. “We don’t go as
evangelism, we go as a construction
group to offer help to those who don’t
have it or need it.”
But he said the advantage of travel
ing to a different country is that vol
unteers are able to learn about differ
ent cultures.
“It also allows Americans to experi
ence life in another country,” Murphy
said. “It’s different than being a tourist,
where you stay in nice places and see
the highlights and move on. This is an
enormous cultural exchange experience
and it changes your life completely.”
Another church in Sandy Springs
aims to make the lives of others better
over the summer, but it doesn’t have to
go as far to do it. North Springs United
Methodist Church will travel to Nash
ville, Tenn., in July to take part in the
Center for Student Missions program.
“We will learn about the city —
the unique issues and problems peo
ple face, and what God is doing in the
city,” Leah Gaughan, director of youth
ministry at the church, said in an email.
The students then
take part in activities
specific to that city.
“Helping others and
giving back is what
our calling from Je
sus is all about,”
Gaughan said. “So
we are committed to
loving our neighbor
in any way we can.”
This year the
group will include
seven young people
and four adults who
will collaborate with
local ministries to serve the city.
“These ministry sites will be work
ing at a local, client choice food pantry,
gardening on an urban farm and volun
teering at a homeless shelter and soup
kitchen,” Gaughan said.
For a project even closer to home,
Our Lady of the Assumption Catho
lic Church in Brookhaven will take 25
middle-school students on a five-day
excursion to various charities in the At
lanta area.
“We feel like at about that age group
they are thinking a lot about them
selves,” Joy Baljet, a parent volunteer
who leads the group, said. “We just
wanted to show them that God has be
stowed all of these gifts for them, and
they should share those.”
Throughout the week, the stu
dents will visit Se
nior Connections
in Chamblee to pre
pare food for Meals
on Wheels and The
Elaine Clark Cen
ter for Exceptional
Children, where they
will participate in ac
tivities with disabled
children.
The group will
also go to the Shrine
of the Immacu
late Conception
in downtown At
lanta to prepare and hand out about
500 lunches to the homeless, and visit
Buckhead Christian Ministry to work
in its food pantry.
In any place, the mission is the same
— learn from giving.
“It’s win-win, both ways,” Hughes
said.
“Our congregation
motto is ‘We are blessed
to be a blessing.’”
- REV. JOE B. MARTIN IV
MOUNT VERNON
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
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