One Sunday each month, this group offers high school students the opportunity to learn about how to embody their faith through hands-on service to people in need—locally, nationally, and globally. Each meeting includes an educational component—Bible study, films, and guest speakers give students insight into issues of poverty, justice and peacemaking and introduce them to people making a positive difference through relief work and advocacy.
Each meeting also includes a hands-on project that relates to the topic they have just learned about. Examples of recent Faith In Action projects include:
Students are also encouraged to share their own mission work and interests, and the group frequently invites one of its own members to provide the educational presentation for a meeting. Student presenters have included someone who went on a summer medical mission trip to Fiji, another who travels regularly to Honduras to work for a community feeding program, a group who spent time in Mississippi rebuilding after Katrina, and the Faith In Action team who went to work on the Heifer Project farm.
In addition to the Sunday afternoon meetings, the program offers students several off-site opportunities to put their “faith into action:”
Below are two photos from the most recent annual town-wide "Rake and Roll" where students assist the elderly and disabled with fall clean up.
