Wednesday at Raleigh Youth Mission

Wednesday at Raleigh Youth Mission

FPC Newton Middle School Mission Team participated in an Urban Walk of downtown Raleigh where we visited several “spaces” where outreach work was being done. We were given a map with numbers which we had to find the location. Parker, our RYM intern, would then describe the importance of this location.

Stop #1- We visited a new location for a Pay what You Can Restaurant. These are restaurants were you have five options:

1. Pay what you are able to afford.

2. Pay what you would typically pay for a similar meal. (We will have a suggested donation)

3. Pay what you would typically pay, plus an extra donation.

4. Pay specifically for someone else’s full meal.

5. Pay by volunteering with us.

Stop #2 Raleigh’s First Parklet- place where two parking spaces are taken up to create a green space for people to sit, read a book and enjoy beautiful flowers. NCSU Design Department created the design with beautiful benches, planters with flowers and greenery.

Stop #3 Nash Park and Moore Park

We compared the two spaces/parks. Nash Park has more trees and fewer homeless people where Moore Park is located near the central Raleigh Bus Center and more people in transition.

Stop #4 Christ Episcopal Church, across from the NC State Capitol Building. This church keeps their sanctuary doors opened during the day for people to get out of the heat and sit, meditate or pray in the air conditioning. How many churches in our area would do the same without a member sitting and watching?

Stop #5-- Water Fountain at the Capitol Building- We were reminded about our baptism and how we take clean water and its availability to people in transition.

Back to FPC Raleigh to pick up corn hole, games, snack packs and cooler of ice water. Youth played cold water with people in the park, distributed the snack packs and the hit was cups of ice water.

The afternoon was spent at Healing Transitions which is a recovering men’s facility in Raleigh. This is a wonderful facility where men go through a 12 step program for a year and leave with a job and a new life. We played volleyball and corn hole with the residents, handed out lots of popsicles and had a great time.

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Tuesday Afternoon with FPC Newton Middle School Youth Mission Team

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Tuesday afternoon FPC Newton Middle school mission team served at Church in the Woods in downtown Raleigh.

Church in the Woods is an outreach ministry of InterSeed. InterSeed is a non-denominational Christian prayer organization that prays for specific needs involving our city, state and county. "Church in the Woods" was born out of prayer teams going out onto the streets to pray for people "on location". Hands on ministry. The Bible says to leave the 99 and go find the one. Most agencies are not equipped to search for those in need. We are that tool. Alice McGee, Director of "CITW" visits the homeless along with volunteer team members. Teams bring food, toiletries, sleeping bags, clothing and love to the people they find. Counseling, prayer and friendship are also offered. "Church in the Woods" is made up of dedicated volunteers who want to "touch" the lives of those in need. No one is beyond the reach of God, no matter how addicted or broken.

We sorted over 200 pairs of shoes, sorted through socks and sent the old socks to With Love from Jesus . This agency will sell the material and receive money for each pound.

We were able to sort and fold clothes and help get everything organized. Miss Jackie, Volunteer Coordinator, commented that this was the best group she has had to volunteer! Go FPC Newton Youth.

FPC Middle School Youth (Day 2) Raleigh Youth Mission

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Tuesday morning with the FPC Newton Middle School Mission Trip in Raleigh. We traveled to Family Promises located near the NCSU campus. This agency provides apartments for families in transition for permanent housing. The apartment complex has 12 apartments each with 3 bedrooms, kitchen, living room, 3 bathrooms and dining room. I think it used to be off campus student apartments while I was at State after the Civil War.

FPC Newton mission team members were given Apartment E that a family that had just received permanent housing had lived for about 6-9 months. Our job was to clean the apartment from ceiling to floor. It took 8 of us 3 hours of elbow grease and about 250 Magic Erasers and gloves to create a clean home and space for a new family.