Assist-JC--How to Get Involved
- Currently eighth graders and high school students are being invited to commit themselves to the work of personal preparation, spiritual focus, and fund-raising efforts that are on-going features of our mission efforts.
- Our students are required to participate in a homeland mission before serving with us in another country.
- Fund-raising is done for the two-year cycle--the Eastport one summer followed by the Honduras trip the following summer.
- About one-third of the costs of our mission trips are funded through the annual budget.
- Participants are expected to pay one-third of the cost out-of-pocket and can take advantage of the "Workers in the Vineyard" program through which church members "hire" Assist-JC workers for a variety of projects. The money that the participants receive is deposited into individual accounts within the church financial system and is tracked by the church financial secretary, Dottie Andrews.
- As for the rest of the money, travelers and their parents are expected to provide time and energy needed for fund-raisers.
- A church-wide yard sale in the fall
- A Lobster Stew dinner in late winter
- A buffet night at Oriental Jade restaurant
- The production and sale of chocolate Easter eggs
- Fund-raising at Walmart
- An in-house theater event in early spring
