Followers Mission Trip and Tour
The youth in 7th through 12th grade have the opportunity to participate in a unique week-long summer experience. The purpose of this summer trip is to serve and build friendships: it is a combination of a mission trip and a choir tour.
Every year, our youth create a faith-based program to present on the way out to our mission site and back. in churches and in nursing homes. This annual trip builds friendships while serving others. A tradition for more than 40 years, this trip transforms the lives of our youth while they share a message of transformation through service.
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2019 Summer Mission Trip
Fairmount Avenue UMC Followers will be partnering with Give Kids the World a Village in Kissimmee, Florida. This trip will be different than previous trips, in that our work will center around offering hope and healing to families with a child who has a terminal illness. Our youth will have the opportunity to love and serve families in the hardest season of their lives, by serving at a resort that partners with wish-granting organizations. The families who stay at the resort each have a child with a terminal health condition and have come for a week to ‘forget’ about illness and make important memories.
This special place offers both healing and hope as the entire resort is designed to make the difficulty of traveling with a special-needs child as easy as possible and is almost staffed by 1,700 volunteers every week! Our youth will assist with the food service, entertainment offerings, and general work around the resort. They will interact with families from around the world who are making important memories, finding rest from illness, and healing in the midst of fun.
“Give Kids The World Village is an 84-acre, nonprofit resort in Central Florida that provides weeklong, cost-free vacations to children with critical illnesses and their families.
The Village and its community partners provide children and their families accommodations in fully-furnished villas, transportation, tickets to theme parks, meals, daily entertainment and much more.
Each year 27,000 children in the United States are diagnosed with a critical illness. Half of all children eligible for a wish through a partnering wish-granting organization choose to visit Central Florida and its collection of theme parks and other attractions.
Our goal, quite simply, is to provide everything these deserving families need to make their trip the vacation of a lifetime. Since 1986, more than 167,000 children and families have had their dreams fulfilled in a whimsical Village unlike any other place on earth. “
From -www.gktwv.org
This special place offers both healing and hope as the entire resort is designed to make the difficulty of traveling with a special-needs child as easy as possible and is almost staffed by 1,700 volunteers every week! Our youth will assist with the food service, entertainment offerings, and general work around the resort. They will interact with families from around the world who are making important memories, finding rest from illness, and healing in the midst of fun.
“Give Kids The World Village is an 84-acre, nonprofit resort in Central Florida that provides weeklong, cost-free vacations to children with critical illnesses and their families.
The Village and its community partners provide children and their families accommodations in fully-furnished villas, transportation, tickets to theme parks, meals, daily entertainment and much more.
Each year 27,000 children in the United States are diagnosed with a critical illness. Half of all children eligible for a wish through a partnering wish-granting organization choose to visit Central Florida and its collection of theme parks and other attractions.
Our goal, quite simply, is to provide everything these deserving families need to make their trip the vacation of a lifetime. Since 1986, more than 167,000 children and families have had their dreams fulfilled in a whimsical Village unlike any other place on earth. “
From -www.gktwv.org