Here a Mission, There a Mission, Everywhere a Mission!

We typically think of short-term missions as teams who leave home and spend some time in service to God at a place some distance away. For the second year, St. Anne's has had a mission team that sleeps at home and serves God in our backyard.

Mission Possible team members are as young as rising 6th graders. They sing, pray and work together from morning to evening, using St. Anne's as their operations base.

This year the Mission Possible kids did the following:
Monday: team building and planning for a carnival at Common Ground daycare.

Tuesday: painting fences and cleaning tack at Lift Me Up!, a therapeutic riding center in Great Falls.

Wednesday: weeding a field of okra at the Volunteer Farm run by the World Foundation for Children in Woodstock, Virginia.

Thursday: a concert and bingo at a local senior center in the morning, carnival games and puppet show for the daycare center in the afternoon.

Friday: cleaning and pricing toys and other items for sale at The Closet, a local thrift store that provides clothes and household items to anyone in need.

The day camp version of short-term mission trips serves to help solidify for our young people that the opportunity for mission surrounds us every day. Mission is about using our hands while we give our hearts to God. We can do mission work in our back yards as well as we can in any of our other short-term mission settings. It's all about being part of the family of God!