Missions
What a whirlwind! Due to students taking the SAT on Saturday, the trip was shorter than usual, but we filled it full to the brim with opportunities for outreach in the greater Harrisonburg, VA, area. Our window for ministry was small, but we made the most of it. The whole group, thirteen students an…
Missions: 2016-17
Laura Courtney (HS English) returned to Kyiv, Ukraine, again this past August for her tenth trip to an evangelical English Camp for Ukrainian university students. This year, she was again the team leader as well as developing the curriculum that they use at the camp. Through the past decade, Laura h…
Missions: 2016-17
“Summer adventures are sweeter in Kentucky” may sound like something Miss Adkins would say, or at least agree with, and the group of students and adults that went to Kentucky with Berkey Church of the Brethren would be willing to assert the same. There were twenty-two in the group, thirteen of which…
Missions: 2016-17
At the beginning of November, Daniel Hostetter (freshman) and his dad Clark traveled to the South American country of Ecuador to visit with a missionary their family supports. Seventeen years ago, Dr. Wes King started a home for boys abandoned from indigenous tribes. Clark and Daniel were able to vi…
Missions: 2016-17
Senior Kristie Lynch joined a team from West Hills Community Church on a trip to Mexico City over the summer to hold a VBS event for kids. The trip included teaching the Word of God and playing games. The first half of the week was devoted to teaching older kids while the second half of the week was…
Missions: 2016-17
Senior Levi Peruso, junior Shiloh Peruso and sophomore Jody Davids traveled this summer to Pittsburgh, PA. They spent the week at the Pittsburgh Youth With A Mission (YWAM) base. The students worked at a kids’ club in the evening in one of the neighborhoods with mainly low income immigrants from th…
Missions: 2016-17
Elementary students will get the chance to serve in 7 unique ways this school year: Recycling – Students will cut used clothing into rags which will be sold in our area and the money used for relief efforts around the world. Cooking – Students will prepare cookies to be delivered to a soup kitchen i…
Missions: 2016-17
This summer, seniors Kelsie Shook and Zack Hodges had the opportunity to go to Lima, Peru, for a week with Greater Johnstown Christian Fellowship. They traveled to Puente Piedra to help a church plant called Little Lambs. While there, the team built three houses, painted, and cleaned up bathrooms, t…
Missions: 2016-17
In April, sixteen students and four adults packed into vans and headed south to Waynesboro, Virginia. We had a vague idea of what we would be doing once we arrived, but we knew that God would be present and He would work through us. When we arrived, we unloaded the contents of the vans into the Sund…
Missions: 2015-16
In early January, Kyrstin Jeffreys had the opportunity to visit Guatemala for a mission trip. She and five others traveled to different small villages within 2 hours of the city, Xenocoj, where she and her team were staying. In these villages, they held a morning children’s program which included ga…
Missions: 2015-16
