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National Mission Team

Family Mission Trip to H.O.M.E. in April, 2010

H.O.M.E. Church and Stained Glass/Jewelry Workshops

The National Mission Team is preparing to journey to Maine during the second week of April to work at H.O.M.E., a cooperative in rural Hancock County, among the poorest in the country. Planned as a family mission, First Congregational Church adults, parents, kids and teens will travel together and live dormitory style in the volunteer center while working in the full range of co-op activities. Included are food bank, soup kitchen, gardening, craft workshops (pottery, stained glass and weaving), daycare, adult education, mechanic’s garage, project woodstove, sawmill and homebuilding (framing, roofing, siding, finishing and painting). H.O.M.E.’s mission is to bring forth new possibilities and productivity for disadvantaged people. Participants have said that lives are touched in amazing ways.

H.O.M.E. Learning Center

“This is a mutually beneficial program. Volunteers gain enlightenment and a sense of the realities of poverty. The people they reach out to also benefit, not only from improvements to their lives and homes, but also from the personal contact and the reinforced acknowledgement of their part in the community.”

If your family does not have plans for April school vacation, please consider joining this mission. Contact Phil Alexandre for further information at 203-637-3773 or phil@alexandregallery.com. The next organizational meeting is planned for early March.