[North Georgia Conference Youth]

Carolina Cross Connection: Carolina Cross Connection is outreach ministry for youth and adults to provide home repairs for disabled, elderly, and poverty-stricken families in western North Carolina. Your group will gather with other youth and adults in one of five camp locations in the mountains and foothills of NC, growing in Christian community. Projects include wheelchair ramps, porches, painting, yardwork, underpinning, insulation, and more. Our summer staff will coordinate worksites and lead campers in worship, devotions, games, and other in-camp activities. Cost per person is $290 and covers room, board, preparation materials, a portion of the staff salary and more. Youth must be at least 13 years old to attend. Come to CCC for an eye-opening, mountain-top experience! Call 704-735-4257 for more info, or visit Carolina Cross Connection on the web at www.carolinacrossconnection.org for registration info and 2007 dates. Carolina Cross Connection is an interdenominational summer outreach ministry and has a covenant relationship with the Western North Carolina UM Conference

River of Life: River of Life is a series of events held each summer aimed at enabling youth and adults, from many different churches, to come together to express the love of Jesus Christ by ministering to the people of a particular community through exterior home repairs and improvements. River of Life is also committed to the conversion and discipling of each participant into a passionate devotion to Jesus Christ and the understanding that Christianity is a life of ministry to others, especially to those in need. River of Life is open to all youth and adults age 6th grade and above. In addition to being the hands and feet of Christ for three days, each night offers crazy fun, awesome speakers and most excellent worship! This weekend will amaze you as you experience a transformation in yourself and as you witness the transformation in your youth group. You don’t want to miss this encounter with God; you will never be the same! For more information contact Bob Beckwith, 706.353.1408 or Shari Hickom, 706.867.3101.

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Red Clay Mission Project: Providing home repairs for low-income, elderly, and handicapped families for nearly a decade. Located on the Harpst Campus of the Murphy-Harpst Children’s Centers in Cedartown, GA. Hundreds of students from dozens of UMCs have spent 5 days living in a ‘tent city’ on the Harpst back campus. The first day is designed to build skills and community among mission families including a ropes course, community scavenger hunt, and roundtable discussion to prepare them for their mission. They will then spend three days repairing roofs, building new porches and handicap ramps, replacing windows, and more. Worship services, recreating, and time spent with MHCC residents are also important aspects of Red Clay. In the past, teams have also traveled from New York, Indiana, Ohio, Alabama, Maryland, and Tennessee to serve. For more information on serving, contact Vance Voinche at MHCC.

Hands to Honduras: Each summer, high school students from different churches in the Conference come together to share in a multi-cultural experience in Honduras. We travel with Honduras Outreach Inc. to Rancho El Paraiso in the Algalta Valley. For two years we have worked with the people of Maguelar to help provide them with new chimneys, repaired roofs, fresh concrete floors, and working latrines. We also spend time in a Vacation Bible School with the children in the village. For more information, check out the h2H website at www.hands2honduras.org.

Opportunities at Hinton Rural Life Center: Hinton is a Jurisdictional "missions" retreat center. It's nestled in the NC mountains near Hayesville. Only about 2 hours from Atlanta. It's a great retreat facility, but it's also a perfect destination for summer mission trips, click here for more info!