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College Mission Trip to Ecuador in 2008
On June 19th, the College Ministry of First Presbyterian Church will lead a nine day mission trip to Quito, Ecuador. We will serve with Youth World, the organization that employs Adam and Sara DeVries in Quito. Youth World will provide opportunities and experiences in and around Quito with options such as construction, daycare and orphanage work, sports ministry and vacation Bible school.
The $2,000 cost for the trip includes 8 nights and 9 days in Quito plus airfare. Youth World requires a minimum of 12 people per trip therefore, we must have all applications and deposits in hand by March 1st . Non-FPC college age students are invited to participate.
To print the trip application, click here. Scholarship assistance is available to FPC-connected college youth by contacting Linda Morphis or printing this form.
If you have questions, please call or email Linda Morphis, FPC College Ministries Coordinator: lmorphis@fpcnashville.org or 615.298.9508 (or 615.478.5510).
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2007 College Mission Trips to Mexico
Yes, you read correctly - it is trips plural. This year there were TWO college mission trips to Mexico. Each of the trips was filled with college adults eager to serve once again as soon as they finished college final exams in May.
We continue our work through Amor Ministries (www.amor.org) to build homes in Tijuana over just 3-4 short, but exhausting days. Many have made the mission trip over their spring breaks as high school youth and continue to feel a calling to this community.
It was a great joy for Sherri and I to minister alongside these young adults knowing that they return to their schools, workplaces, and homes changed men and women dedicated to serve God wherever He might call them.
Enjoy just a few of our memories from this year's trips.
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2007 College Mission Trips to Russia
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College Mexico Mission Trip 2006
This past May a group of 11 college students and Sherri and myself traveled to Mexico to build a home in Tijuana. Our working with Amor started about 7 years ago and is one of the most life changing trips that we take. We fly into San Diego and then travel into Mexico where we set up camp and start building the house. We are working with a very poor family who are in need of a solid roof over their heads. One of the best parts of this trip is the time around the camp fire. At night we cook our own food and then have devotion time around a sometimes large camp fire. I can tell you that there is nothing like spending time in the Mexican desert around a camp fire with others who want to help others.
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College Russia Mission Trip 2006
This past July a group of 8 went to Tula Russia to help with a camp for around 75 children. These kids came from the town of Tula and other surronding towns. There was also a group of 17 who live at an orphanage in Tula and were able to attend the camp.
Over the years we have gotten to know not only the campers but also the leaders. As always it was so much fun to see old friends and to make so many new ones.
Our day started early and ended late. We had meetings in the morning and at night and all during the day we played games, sang songs, worked on craft swam in the very cold river and showed our love for these kids by just being there. The hardest part of this trip is that we aren't building a building, we are building a life long relationship. You see, all of our effort is so worth it when you see the smiles on the faces of the children who for the most part have very hard life. Laughter is rare.
During the time in Russia we did have a little free time. We visited Moscow and the town on Tula. To stand in Red Square where so much history has happened and to walk in the Krimlin and along the Moscow River is something that words can't start to explain.
Please pray for the childern and families that you see in the following pictures. They need to know that God IS watching over them.
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2005 College Mission Trip to Mexico
During the past seven years, a group of our college students have traveled to Mexico to build a home for a needy family. Each year, lives have been changed, both ours and the family for whom we build.
This year was no exception. During May, 14 of us went to Mexico once again. This group included Grant Bannen, Adam Floyd, Haden Wiley, Melissa Hindman, Meghan Miller, Nathan Potter, Mary Craig Parrish, Darren Mustin, David Freeman, Jake Griffin, Jay Howell, Jeremy White, Sherri Parrish, and me, Craig Parrish.
It was amazing to see God at work and the Holy Spirit revealing Himself to us as we allowed ourselves to be mere vessels. God allowed us to show His blessings to a family in great need, and the enthusiasm that came from that knowledge helped us finish the house in two-and-a-half days rather than the usual four. The children in the neighborhood even came to help.
Ask anyone who went on that trip and let them talk your ear off about it. It was wonderful!
In Christ,
Craig Parrish
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2005 College Mission Trip to Russia
Each summer for the past 6 years a group of College age students have traveled to Tula Russia to help with a camp for Russian children who might not otherwise be able to attend a summer camp. For 10 days they are able to have fun and to get away from the sometimes hard life of a youth in Russia. The town of Tula is located about 90 miles south of Moscow. At one time Tula was where all of the arms and ammo was made for the old Soviet Union. Now with the cold war over, the jobs left so there is high unemployment. Tula is a town of about 800,000 people. The country side around Tula is beautiful. This is where we camp. Also while we are in Tula, we visit two orphanages and just play with these children. Only about 10% of the children in orphanages will ever be adopted. I hope that some of the pictures will tell the story of these beautiful children and there leaders who are all Gods children.
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