Missions and Service Opportunities

One of the main goals of our youth ministry is to teach our youth to follow the example of our Lord through serving other. We have done simple things from visiting the nursing homes to week long trips working in at an orphanage in Jamaica. We will be going to Jamaica in the summer of 2010 and this year our senior high youth will be going to a Youth works site in the eastern U.S.

Listing below is some information about some of the places that we have served.

 Morning Star Fishermen

Is a faith based 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization with the mission to help make the world a better and healthier place, by fighting world hunger through education and training. It’s primary mission and goal is to build fish farms and training centers to teach the needy how to raise fish and vegetables for themselves. This approach permanently provides an ongoing supply of nutritious food grown by and for each specific community.

Morning Star Fishermen is located on 10 acres in Dade City, Florida, 25 miles north east of the Tampa. It’s dormitory houses 16 students. The main hatchery and training building has over 110,000 gallons of tank space, wet labs and classrooms. Other facilities include 60,000 gallons of enclosed exterior tanks as well as fully integrated "model" solar and wind powered aquaponics systems. students of all ages and backgrounds Dade City Training and Research Center are encouraged to serve their fellow man and value this learning in our hands-on setting. Their studies involve integrated combinations of eight main areas. These include: working with various, appropriate technologies; breeding; feeding; managing waste; maximizing growth; gardening; weeding; and general maintenance.

 Mission Jamaica

Our senior high youth travel to Jamaica for a week of service and mission. They stay at the Youth With a Mission Campus overlooking Montego Bay and travel daily into the mountains to work at Westhaven Children’s orphanage and the Cops basic school. Jamaica might be know as a vacation paradise but it is one of the most impoverished nations in the world. Our youth are given an experience and an opportunity that change their world perspective.