We're Going to Cherokee!

For two months, PCC Senior High/College Students and adults have been preparing to be on mission this summer in Cherokee NC with an organization called World Changers http://worldchangers.studentz.com/site/c.ejINI6PNKoG/b.309499/

Our preparation has included fundraising in which the students have had opportunity to raise money by selling coookie dough, washing cars and selling Brusters' ice cream.

We have also been meeting to prepare ourselves spiritually..so that we can serve out of an abundance of God's love and grace..not out of our own strength.

In these meetings, we have talked about what it means to LEAP (WC theme this year) into service and in our relationship with God. We have talked about sharing our God Stories with those we meet and how our presence in the Cherokee Community can be a light to the Cherokee tribe. We have shared allot, grown as a team and we are getting really pumped about our trip! The World Changers Organization requires that we do a pre-project study and a pre-project mission so that we will be more prepared once we arrive on site. So, we will be joining the PCC Impact team on June 7th for a roofing project which will help us master some skills and for some...learn the difference between a hammer and a screwdriver!!

Once in Cherokee, we will be joining 375 other students just like us from all over the south east. There will be students from Georgia, North Carolina, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida (just to name a few). We will be the 3rd largest site this summer. Exciting, eh?

We will be working on the reservation to help repair homes of people that live at or below the poverty level. We will be doing a variety of projects to include roofing, handicap ramps, painting, plumbing, etc.

This is the first summer that PCC students will have an opportunity to go on a Senior High/College only trip. This will provide an opportunity for our students to take their faith and their service to the next level. World Changers projects are full of hard work, long hours and minimal comforts. We will start our work days at 7:00 am and do not finish until 4:oo pm. We will sleep on the floor of Cherokee High School and be fed by the North Carolina Disaster Team mobile feeding kitchen. Our days begin with breakfast and a morning send-off celebration.

Our days end with worship and church group devotions. During church group devotion time is the only time we will actually be together as a church group. During the day, PCC students will be divided onto teams (with cool names like the "Hammerheads" and the "Mortar Slingers") with other students from other churches.

This blogsite is where you can go to "watch and see" what we are doing in Cherokee. I will try and post everynight....so stay tuned, log on your computer...grab a cup of coffee and watch God's plan unfold in Cherokee, NC! Watch for our first post beginning June 13th!